All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus Christ
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. Lucinda Franks
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. Ednita Nazario
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. Elbert Hubbard
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. Elbert Hubbard
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time. Jimi Hendrix
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. Paulo Coelho
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer