Quotes on Love

Instead of loving what you think is peace,

Love other women and men and love God above all else.
Instead of hating all the people you think are warmongers,
Hate the appetites and disorders in your own soul which are the causes of
war.
(Thomas Merton, Monk & Poet)
Hatred and fear can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that.
Hatred paralyses life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonises it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
The realisation that we are all basically the same human beings,
Who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering,
is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood:
a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
This, in turn, is essential if we are to survive in this ever shrinking world we
love in.
(Dalai Lama)
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
(Max Lerner)
Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things it should
avoid.
It needs compassion, and a wish that humankind should be happy: it needs
the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths;
it needs above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness
The root of the matter is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so
simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it for fear of the derisive
smile with which wise cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean
please forgive me for mentioning it is love, Christian Love or compassion.
If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide in action, a reason
for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
(Bertrand Russell)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies
toughness in a descending spiral of destruction The chain reaction of
evil hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars must be broken, or
we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
(Martin Luther King Jr)

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I
am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to
remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all
my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not
have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or
rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does
not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
(1 Corinthians 13)
Quotes on Hope
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
(John F Kennedy)
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite
hope.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material
science would solve all human problems. Now, they have become
disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realised that
spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human life.
(Dalai Lama)
Of all the forces that can make for a better world, none is so indispensable,
none to powerful, as hope. Without hope man is only half alive.
(Charles Sawyer)
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others,
Or strikes out against injustice, they send forth a tiny ripple of hope and
crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance.
(Robert F Kennedy)
Lord make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where the is injustice, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is dark, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I am 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 pardoning that we are pardoned.

And it is in dying to ourselves

That we are born to eternal life.
(St Francis of Assisi)