“If God is all loving, then we must treat the heart as the throne of God.”
Quotes about love
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“Love should be your truest religion and humanity your priority in life.”
“The love of God is the kind of love that doesn't expect to be loved!”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 102, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
Original: (ar) La ilaha illa'l-'ishq
Reported in, Bernard, J. F., Talleyrand: A Biography. (1973), p. 592
“I love the guitar, always have. I can relate to it a lot better than a saxophone.”
New York Daily News interview (1979)
“To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.”
Attributed to Augustine by many sources on line, but without an actual reference.
Disputed
Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 428
“Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.”
Homily 6 on First Timothy https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/230606.htm
“During my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.”
Source: Letter to Daniel Ullmann (1 February 1861); quoted in "Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig" by Daniel Walker Howe, The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Winter 1995) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0016.105?view=text;rgn=main; also in We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 (2013) by William J. Cooper, p. 72 http://books.google.com/books?id=meYLTCRlHaQC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Lincoln+%22I+have+loved+and+revered%22&source=bl&ots=A-QLTNlkSN&sig=F0MdGo6rkAVKc3tIQSs0Xp4AdSY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fmpQUv22LpCi4APhj4HoDQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Lincoln%20%22I%20have%20loved%20and%20revered%22&f=false
India: Bishop decries ‘love jihad’ and ‘drug jihad,’ ‘In the eyes of a jihadi, non-Muslims are to be destroyed’ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/india-bishop-decries-love-jihad-and-drug-jihad-in-the-eyes-of-a-jihadi-non-muslims-are-to-be-destroyed (september 13, 2021)
Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 115
“Where did love go?
Where did love go?
Are our souls empty?
Are we done yet?”
Source: Song lyrics
“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.
“I've seen hate change many things for the worse. I've seen love change everything for the good.”
Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 205.
“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Ethik, § 26 ISBN 978-1494963262
“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Metaphysik, § 21 ISBN 978-1494963262
“Listen with ears of tolerance!
See through the eyes of compassion!
Speak with the language of love.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
Source: Short fiction, The Early Asimov Book One (1972), Half-Breed (p. 160)
“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”
"Fifth Dialogue," p. 149
St. Petersburg Dialogues (1821)
“What you do and what you love just becomes a part of you, if you're lucky.”
Source: Paul McCartney: The Waterstones Interview
December 2021
https://youtu.be/chROemnJfIo?t=2916
"Mind Games"
Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Original: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
Never Abandon Your Family
Lyrics, Donda (2021)
Ultralight Beam
Lyrics, The Life of Pablo (2016)
Love Lockdown
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
Heard 'Em Say
Lyrics, Late Registration (2005)
Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54
1995
“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”
Source: Sonnet XXIII
Context: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love’s right,
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
Only the final bold section is connected to Laozi (see Ch. 17 of Tao Te Ching above). The origin of the added first section is unclear.
Misattributed
Incorrectly attributed to Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.
“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”
Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net
Original: Capire l'importanza di non toccare una persona che non ci voglia, rendersi conto che non sia giusto illudere qualcuno che non ci appartenga, ma solo per egoismo, per il piacere di farlo o per pura soddisfazione non è da tutti. E soprattutto, significa amare e rispettare il valore umano.
Source: prevale.net
“Those who are in love can be recognized immediately: they never feel equal to their loved one.”
Original: Chi è innamorato si riconosce subito: non si sente mai all'altezza della persona amata.
Source: prevale.net
“It's difficult, almost impossible, to lie to someone you love.”
Original: È difficile, quasi impossibile, mentire a qualcuno che si ama.
Source: prevale.net
“The music is the best … even more than peace and love”