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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)

For love is not about merging. It's a noble calling for the individual to ripen, to differentiate, to become a world in oneself in response to another. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Letters to a Young Poet: Communing with Rilke's Prophetic Musing)

Of all the species that need rewilding, I think human beings come at the top of the list. I would love to see a more intense and emotional engagement of human beings with the living world. --George Monbiot (in Rewilding a Mountain)

Love is the cause of unity in all things. --Aristotle (in Clarksville Elementary School: We Are the World )

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. --Dalai Lama (in A Surgeon's Compassionate Pricing Model)

Grief and joy and love -- it's all part of the same spectrum. I'm grieving because I loved someone so much. --Maryanne O'Hara (in Death Doulas Provide End of Life Aid)

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. --Jeanette Wiinterson (in The Wisdom of Salmon)

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (in The Man in the Red Bandana)

Navigating becomes a way of knowing, familiarity, and fondness. It is how you can fall in love with a mountain or a forest. --M.R. O'Connor (in Place, Personhood & the Hippocampus)

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love --E.A. Bucchianeri (in Mizuko Kuyo: A Unique Japanese Grieving Ritual)

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(in Threshold Choir: An Interview with Kate Munger)

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. A little parenthesis in eternity.
--Paulo Coelho
(in Love Letters to Presence: Three Poems)


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