Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. --Mother Theresa (in Service Vacation)

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is discord, union; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. --The Prayer of St Francis (in The Prayer of St Francis)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. --Jimi Hendrix (in Smiling Not Allowed)

Out of love, No regrets- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets- Though the return Be never. --Langston Hughes (in No Regrets)

May our lives be ever intertwined, our love keeping us together. We will build a home that is compassionate to all, full of respect and honor for others and each other. May our home be forever filled with peace, happiness and love. --Author Unknown (in Made With Love Café)

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. ... The real preparation for education is the study of one's self. --Maria Montessori (in 100 Years of Montessori)

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in The World's Biggest Concert Ever)

Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any moment, become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? --Dorothy Day (in A Common Word Between Us & You)

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also -- if you love them enough. --George Washington Carver (in Organic Inventiveness)

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo F. Buscaglia (in The Art of Holding Babies)

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. --Oscar Wilde (in Sustainable Extravagance: The World as Cherry Tree)

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. --Dorothy Day (in The Biggest Neighborhood News Blog)

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. --Susan Polis Schutz (in The Artist Who Paints Disappearing Rain Forests)

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Another King At Gandhi's Memorial)

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. --Deepak Chopra (in Caring For Other People's Children)

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. --Mother Teresa (in A Beloved Ritual By Ironworkers in Boston)

Patience is a kind of love. A love that is its own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkledparchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach. Too full to find place for offence. --Pavithra Mehta (in Five Practices for Cultivating Patience)

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy. --Robert Louis Stevenson (in Less Give More)

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. --Julio Olalla (in A Love Affair With Questions)

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth ... This is the real message of love. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in A Roaming Refuge for 1200 Animals)

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will be worthwhile. --Deepak Chopra (in Attitude of Gratitude)

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. --Dorothy Day (in How Gift-Giving Creates Community)

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. --Mother Teresa (in Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa)

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. --St. Teresa of Avila (in Mr. Wright's Law of Love)

Love what you do and do what you love. --Ray Bradbury (in The Nature of Ambition)

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human
heart then it's opposite. --Nelson Mandela (in Remembering Madiba: Timeless Wisdom from Nelson Mandela)

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. --George Bernard Shaw (in Green Bridge Growers: Finding Hope in the Ground)

The love we give away is the only love we keep. --Elbert Hubbard (in A Christmas Wish From Beyond The Grave)

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. --Paulo Coelho (in A Story of Grace & Grit)

I don't even think about whether I love music or not because my connection to music is deeper than love. --David France (in Music For Social Change)

No one is born hating another person...People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. --Nelson Mandela (in Eight Keys To End Bullying)

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. --Gary Zukav (in Dr. Bob's Clinic of Compassion)

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. --Mother Teresa (in Stitches of Hope)

Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can. Imagine immensities. --Debbie Millman (in Fixed vs Growth: Two Mindsets that Shape Our Lives)

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. --Shanon L. Alder (in The 80-Year-Old Who Runs the World's Coolest Train...for Dogs)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace --Mahatma Gandhi (in How to Avoid Abusing Power)

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. --Bryant McGill (in Forgiving My Brother's Killer)

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. --Mother Teresa (in She Lost A Daughter. Today She Shelters 800 Girls)

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Addressing Social Justice with Compassion)

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. --Meister Eckhart (in Suiseki: The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation)

Maybe we can't get to where we want to get to, unless we love people who are really hard for us to love. --Larry Brilliant (in Birds and Saints Don't Collect)

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally. --Yvonne Pierre (in Looking Past Limits: The Remarkable Story of Caroline Casey)

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. --bell hooks (in Can Love Be A Force for Social Justice?)

Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger is the force that protects it. --Valerie Kaur (in Three Lessons of Revolutionary Love in a Time of Rage)

Eventually you will come to understand that
love heals everything, and love is all there is. --Gary Zukav (in One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ---Mahatma Gandhi- (in A Small Dark Light: Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching)

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -- But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. --Hilary Stanton Zunin (in A Video Game to Cope with Grief)

We need to find our way back to love, and the forgotten garden of the soul reconnects us to love--this is a part of its mystery, its magic. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (in When the Source Ran Free: A Story for Our Times)

We are born of love.
Love is our mother. --Rumi (in Alphabet Heart Sutra: A Mother's Day Offering)

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment. --Jiddu Krishnamurti (in A Higher Level of Conscious Engagement)