The first duty of love is to listen. --Paul Tillich (in My Word of the Year)

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. --Paulo Coelho (in Eight Inspiring Moments from 2018)

Everything we love is what we must protect in the final moments while there's still time. There is still time --Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (in Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: Break Free)

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. --Tia Walker (in Caregiving: A Nascent Social Revolution)

The practice of Blessing is a simple way to develop a constantly centered awareness. It is also a tool for growing in Universal Love and avoiding judgment. --Pierre Pradervand (in Becoming a Blessing)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in Free Trip to Egypt )

Attending to life is an act of love. --Katie Rubinstein (in Mother's Day: Belonging to Each Other)

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. --Mother Teresa (in How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life)

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. --Tia Walker (in Navigating the Transition into Caregiving)

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ---Carl Sagan- (in How Space Can Heal What Divides Us)

Except we love, all news comes as from a distant land. --Mary Oliver (in Creating Welcoming Space)

The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. --Joanna Macy (in The Work that Reconnects)

I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear. ---Martin Luther King Jr.- (in The Power of MLK's Anger)

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. --Rumi (in One Breath Around the World)

What is this moment teaching me about myself and others, and how is it contributing to my ability to love? --Lee Perlman (in Love and Philosophy Between Prison Walls and Ivory Towers)

A lot of heroes have as their weapons of choice LOVE AND COMPASSION. --Dianne Ackerman (in The Zookeeper's Wife)

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. --James Baldwin (in What Does it Mean to Love Someone?)

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. --Esther Perel (in Esther Perel: The Constant Dance Between Me and You)

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. --Ram Dass (in Be Love Now)

We all flow from one fountain -- Soul. All are expressions of one love. --John Muir (in One Love)

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Serotiny: The Story of Lead to Life)

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. --Rossiter W. Raymond (in Love Letters from La Pineta)

Everything we see and touch consists of matter rearranged by information and energy. Everything is in connections and bonds. Life, mind, and love, our human nature, have been created in partnership with the rules that run the world. --Paul R. Fleischman (in The Wonder of the Universe is Wondering in Us)

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace --Eckhart Tolle (in Accepting What Is)

Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding... It's very beautiful and very deep. --Ajahn Brahm (in The Monkey and the River)

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love. --Nachman of Breslov (in Powered by Love --- an Emerging Worldview)

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. --Desmond Tutu (in SUPERHERO: A Music Video for Our Times)

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice. --Jacqueline Novogratz (in Manifesto for a Moral Revolution)

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. --bell hooks (in Spell to Be Said Against Hatred)

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond. --Robin Wall Kimmerer (in Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy)

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. --Brene Brown (in john powell on Othering & Belonging)

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action --by practice -- not solely by feeling. --bell hooks (in The Power of Real Love)

The first duty of love is to listen. --Paul Tillich (in The Phone Call)

Love is the bridge between you and everything. --Rumi (in The View From Here)

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in Creating Magic from Fragments)

I was born when all I once feared, I could love. --Hazrat Bibi Rabia of Basra (in What Is Solidarity?: Reflections on Justice)

Never does love's compassionate eye turn from us. --Julian of Norwich (in Julian of Norwich: Wisdom for a Time of Pandemic & Beyond)

I love a broad margin to my life. --Henry David Thoreau (in Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure)

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone -- we find it with another. --Thomas Merton (in Top 10 Insights from the Science of a Meaningful Life)

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
--Emily Dickinson (in When Love Rescued Christmas)

But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy --Amanda Gorman (in Amanda Gorman: The Miracle of Morning)

How do we carry the weight of the world?
With love. --Emily Rose Barr (in Emily's Affirmations: A Valentine's Day Gift to Self)

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in A Meditation on Grief)

I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour. --George Washington Carver (in The Gift of Ecological Humility)

Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. --Rumi (in Oh For Crying Out Loud)

I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.
--Marina Keegan (in Marina Keegan & the Opposite of Loneliness)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in An Illustrated Poster for People Who Love Their Work)

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. --Lao Tzu (in Waiting for the Elvers)

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love. --Rumi (in A Seed of Freedom)

You gotta put one foot in front of the other
And lead with love. --Melanie DeMore (in Melanie DeMore: Sending You Light)