“WE live in this world when we love it.”
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Stray Birds (1916)
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Rabindranath Tagore 178
Bengali polymath 1861–1941Related quotes
“Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.”
Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11
"Run the World" (2012), David Stewart, feat. Example
("Run the World" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSXgmDB8NOo
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1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Variant: We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
Context: But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
Variant: We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
"The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).
