315 Quotes about Love
Quotes About Love
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Quotes About Love
Over 315 quotes, learnings, teachings and philosophy to help explain the mystery, romance and all encompassing force that is love. Inspirational quotes about love and quotes about loving yourself, family, friendship, relationships, the environment and love for others below.
54 Inspirational Quotes About Love
1. “Love is everything”
Peaceful Soul
2. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
3. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
Tom Wolfe
4. "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
Morrie Schwartz
5. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
Eckhart Tolle
6. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
7. “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan
8. “Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of
ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”
Eckhart Tolle
9. “Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
Houssaye
10. “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
Saint Ignatius
11. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
William W. Purkey
12. "Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself."
Deepak Chopra
13. “Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
14. “Our world needs more loving hearts.”
AVIJEET DAS
15. "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
Mother Teresa
16. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis
17. “A life lived in love will never be dull.”
Leo Buscaglia
18. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in”
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG
19. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo
20. "There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."
Mahatma Gandhi
21. “Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”
William Arthur Ward
22. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
Oscar Wilde
23."The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
Henry Miller
24. “I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them.”
Cate Blanchett
25. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love”
MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr
26. “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
27. "The giving of love is an education in itself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
27. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
George Sand
28. “All you need is love.”
The Beatles
29. “True love is born from understanding.”
Buddha
30. “Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.”
Buddha
31. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”
Buddha
32. "Choose love."
Peaceful Soul
33. “You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel”
Johnny Depp
34. “We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch
35. "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
36. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
37. "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Khalil Gibran
38. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
Buddha
39. "In time people forget what you say, forget what you do but not how you made them feel."
Buddha
40. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
41. "There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
42. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
Nikki Giovanni
43. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard — they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
44. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
45. "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
Bryant H. McGill
46. “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”
Charles Eisenstein
47. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Mother Theresa
48. "I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King Jr
49. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens
50. “The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.”
Dalai Lama
51. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston
52. “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.”
Oprah Winfrey
53. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Elbert Hubbard
54. “You call it madness, but I call it love.”
Don Byas
55. “True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.”
Kevin Gates
53 Love Yourself Quotes
1. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home."
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
2. “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
Haruki Murakami
3. “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
Buddha
4. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
5. “It is better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you"
Buddha
6. "The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
Winnie the Pooh
7. "When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way."
Ellie Holcomb
8. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
Maya Angelou
9. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
Brené Brown
10. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”
Wayne Dyer
12. “Today you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!...’”
Dr. Seuss
13. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
Dan Pearce
14. “Your biggest commitment must always be to yourself.
Bridgett Devoue
15. "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been."
Glennon Doyle
16. “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
Edmond Mbiaka
17. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert MorleY
19. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
20. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself."
Wayne Dyer
21. “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”
Les Brown
22. “I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to be know how to be alone and not defined by another person"
OSCAR WILDE
23. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.”
Brené Brown
24. “You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”
Rupi Kaur
25. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
OSCAR WILDE
26. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
Maya Angelou
27. “You change the world by being yourself.”
Yoko Ono
28. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
Charles Bukowski
29. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky
30. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
Harvey Fierstein
31. "No one is you and that is your power"
Dave Grohl
32. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.”
Brené Brown
33. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
Katrina Mayer
34. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
35. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
Diane von Furstenberg
36. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen
37. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
Denis Waitley
38. “It’s you versus you.”
The Rock
39. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
Louise Hay
40. “You really have to love yourself to get anything in this world done.”
Lucille Ball
41. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder
42. “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Buddha
43. “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
Swami Vivekananda
44. “Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.”
Hailee Steinfeld
45. “If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”
Beyoncé
46. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
Brigham Young
47. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
48. “Don’t fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance.”
Ashley Graham
49. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren
50. “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”
Diane Von Furstenberg
51. “Self love—it doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.”
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
52. “Be single and save yourself for a relationship that motivates you to become the best version of yourself. Be single until you find a love that resembles the type of love you’ve been fighting for.”
r.h. Sin
53. “I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”
Shirley MacLaine
53. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any Happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
Alice Walker
39 Family Quotes
1. "If you want to bring peace to the world, go home and love your family."
Mother Theresa
2. “My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.”
Siri Hustvedt
3. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
Anthony Brandt
4. "You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges."
Elizabeth Berg
5. “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
Walt Disney
6. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
7. “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.”
Paul Pearsall
8. "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."
Winston Churchill
9. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
10. "There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family."
Kate Middleton
11. “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
Mary Karr
12. "I sustain myself with the love of family."
Maya Angelou
13. “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
Peter Buffett
14. "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."
Richard Bach
15. "May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude."
Leonard Cohen
16. “In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”
Alex Haley
17. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
John C. Maxwell
18. "My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me."
Michael Imperioli
19. "My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct."
Jodi Picoult
20. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
Pope John XXIII
21. "The memories we make with our family is everything."
Candace Cameron
22. "We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family."
Coco
23. “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
Irina Shayk
24. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
Albert Einstein
25. "Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life."
Lisa Weed
26. “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
Elizabeth Berg
27. “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”
MICHAEL J FOX
28. “Family is the most important thing in the world.”
Princess Diana
29. “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.”
Michael Imperioli
30. “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.”
José Carreras
31. "The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."
Marge Kennedy
32. "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
Mario Puzo
33. “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
George Bernard Shaw
34. "The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.”
Charles Kuralt
35. “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.”
Guy Lafleur
36. "Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."
Anthony Liccione
37. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
38. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”
MARGARET HEFFERNAN
39. "I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.”
Barbara Bush
53 Friendship Quotes
1. “Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.”
Buddha
2. “Like someone pointing to treasure is the wise person who sees your faults and points them out. Associate with such a sage.”
Buddha
3. "Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
Mencius
4. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
John Evelyn
5. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
6. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau
7. "There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."
Jennifer Aniston
8. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
Maria Shriver
9. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
Henry Ford
10. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
11. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."
Charles Lamb
12. "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
Anita Brookner
13. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
Eustace Budgell
15. "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
Oprah Winfrey
16. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant."
Socrates
17. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
Donna Roberts
18. "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
Jean de la Fontaine
19. “Friends are the family you choose.”
Jess C. Scott
20. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Elisabeth Foley
21. "The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
Chelsea Handler
22. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
Woodrow Wilson
23. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
Anna Deavere Smith
24. “True friends are always together in spirit.”
L.M. Montgomery
25. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
26. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. Lewis
27. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
28. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
29. “The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Eugene Kennedy
30. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. "Things are never quite as a scary when you have a best friend."
Bill Watterson
32. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
William Shakespeare
33. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
Elbert Hubbard
34. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
Richard Bach
35. "Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace."
Christie Brinkley
36. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
John C. Maxwell
37. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Jane Austen
38. "A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."
Frances Ward Weller
39. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
40. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."
David Tyson
41. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Hubert H. Humphrey
42. "There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met."
Jim Henson
43. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
44. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
Muhammad Ali
45. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
46. "It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds."
Gina Barreca
47. "Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
Friedrich Nietzsche
48. "Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
Dean Koontz
49. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana
50. "Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
51. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Marlene Dietrich
52. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
Thomas Aquinas
53. "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
Jane Austen
49 Relationships Quotes
1. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
DR SEUSS
2. “Once in awhile, right in the middle of ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale”
J.B. JEFFREY
3. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Gustav Jung
4. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Washington Irving
5. ”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
Criss Jami
7. “Love is friendship on fire.”
Susan Sontag
8. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Emily Brontë
9. "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
Bruce Lee
10. "Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different."
Sue Zhao
11. “Treat her like you never want to lose her.”
r.h. Sin
12. "People should fall in love with their eyes closed."
Andy Warhol
13. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
14. “It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.”
Anthony Storr
15. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
James Baldwin
16. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."
Cassandra Clare
17. “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.”
Hugh Mackay
18. "My heart is, and always will be, yours."
Jane Austen
19. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
Madonna
20. "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
Harry Burns
21. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway
22. "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
Richard Bach
23. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
24. "Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends, we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."
Isabel Allende
25. "In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."
Robert Brault
26. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
LAO TZU
27. “The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.”
Halle Berry
28. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
Jodi Picoult
29. "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
John Keats
30. “True love stories never have endings.”
Richard Bach
31. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
Henry Winkler
32. “You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.”
Bob Marley
33. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
34. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
35. "You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
Oscar Wilde
36. "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."
Andrew Breton
37. “Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.”
Lauryn Hill
38. “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
St. Augustine
39. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
Julia Roberts
40. "Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable."
ELLEN J BARRIER
41. “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”
Nina Simone
42. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
Herman Hesse
43. “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
44. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein
45. "You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.”
C. JoyBell C.
46. “Love her so much that she might doubt your sanity... but never your passion”
DEAN JACKSON
47. “In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”
Taylor Swift
48. “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important."
Lisa Hoffman
49. “I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”
Julia Roberts
35 Love for the Environment Quotes
1. "The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
3. “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
Jimmy Carter
4. “If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”
Alex Trebek
5. “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
Thomas Fuller
6. “The future will either be green or not at all”
Bob Brown
7. “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Helen Keller
8. “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
Mother Theresa
9. “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
E. O. Wilson
10. "We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment"
Margaret Mead
11. "Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."
Victoria Principal
12. "Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action"
Leonardo DiCaprio
13. "We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
Elon Musk
14. “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.”
LEO TOLSTOY
15. “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau
16. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
George Washington Carver
17. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
George Washington Carver
18. “The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth."
Chief Seattle
19. “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”
Lady Bird Johnson
20. “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
21. “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
22. “The Earth is what we all have in common.”
Wendell Berry
23. “Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.”
Sidney Sheldon
24. “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
Barry Commoner
25. “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
John Ruskin
26. “Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”
Evo Morales
27. "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. "If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
Susan George
29. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed."
Mahatma Gandhi
30. “The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
John Paul II
31. “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
Ansel Adams
32. "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make."
JANE GOODALL
33. “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”
Barbara Ward
34. "What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
Chris Maser
35. "The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."
Richard Rogers
32 Love for Others Quotes
1. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
2. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
Charles Dickens
3. “Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.”
Joan Z. Borysenko
4. “Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”
ANNIE GOTTLIEB
5. "We should love each other in peace and harmony. ”
Bob Marley
6. "If you don't know which road to take in life: do what's loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That's the only path leading to light. If it's loving, it builds up, if not, it will only tear down”
Sereno Sky
7. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
Joyce Meyer
8. “To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.”
Ellen J Barrier
9. “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”
Solange
10. “The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Mitch Albom
11. "Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both."
Martin Luther King Jr
12. “As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgement but rain your kindness equally on all.”
Buddha
13. “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again and you will be filled with joy.”
Buddha
14. “If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
Buddha
15. "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
Maya Angelou
16. “Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine in yourself, so that you can hear it in others.”
Marian Wright Edelman
17. “Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.”
Lloyd D. Newell
18. “We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.”
Terry Warner
19. “I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.”
Atul Gawande
20. “When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.”
Oprah Winfrey
21. “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
Saint Augustine
22. “In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”
Buddha
23. “Give, even if you only have a little.”
Buddha
24. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
Buddha
25. “In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”
Buddha
26. “Let him not deceive another nor despise anyone anywhere. In anger or ill will let him not wish another ill.”
Buddha
27. "The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."
Vincent Van Gogh
28. "A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself."
Shannon L. Alder
29. "Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others."
Erich Fromm
30. “One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
Buddha
31. “If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”
Buddha
32. "When you become free from the meanness of the mind, an indiscriminate sense of love and inclusion arises."
Sadhguru
Quotes from The Love & Relationship Wellbeing 5 Project Interviews
1. “Love is a constant process of tuning in, connecting, missing and misreading cues, disconnecting, repairing and finding deeper connection. It is a dance of meeting and parting and finding each other again minute to minute and day to day.”
Dr. Sue Johnson
2. “Relationships are where life really happens. Through relationships, including our relationship with ourselves,…we connect, we mess up, we grow, and we learn to be our best.“
Jessica Speer
3. "Just because I understand, it doesn’t mean I care"
Homer Simpson
4. "Nothing is personal’"
John Kenny
5. “Love doesn’t have to be a struggle. It’s a choice you can make in every moment that makes the difference between putting up barriers to love in the relationship or growing it.”
Susie and Otto Collins
6. “An Exceptional Relationship takes an exceptional commitment.”
Jáchym Jerie
7. “Listen to the science”
Greta Thunberg
8. “Love is a verb, an action, not a feeling.”
9. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
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