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)

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. --bell hooks (in The Wide-Angle Legacy & Vision of bell hooks)

Whenever domination is present love is lacking. --bell hooks (in bell hooks: A Revolutionary Who Led With Love)

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth)

May we find our foundation in the work of Love; demanding, tiring, true and human and holy. --Padraig O Tuama (in This Fantastic Argument of Being Alive)

A garden is a way that the land says, "I love you."...Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. --Robin Wall Kimmerer (in On the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Gardening)

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things --Lao Tzu (in Transforming Apocalypse Fatigue into Action)

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. --Walt Whitman (in When I Die Recompose Me)

We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between things. --Mary Ruefle (in Mary Ruefle's Stunning Color Spectrum of Sadnesses)

Love is the cause of unity in all things. --Aristotle (in We the People)

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Soul of Medicine)

Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us. --Nikos Patedakis (in Horse Medicine, Horse Mystery)

Our lives are not problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution. --Kate Bowler (in Everything Happens for A Reason & Other Lies I've Loved)

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

--Peace Pilgrim (in Alison Thompson Responds with Heart)

What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love. --Nipun Mehta (in Nipun Mehta: A Deeper Thanksgiving)

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
--Ben Okri (in The Best Greater Good Articles of 2022)

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. --Khalil GIbran (in Bicycling Around the World for Love)

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. --June Jordan (in June Jordan's Legacy of Solidarity & Love)

And our inexplicable love for this world, our delight and grief -- what is that but the Cosmos loving itself, delighting in itself, grieving for itself? --David Hinton (in An Ethics of Wild Mind)

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Say Wow: A Conversation with Poet Chelan Harkin)

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

--Wendell Berry (in The Red Dress)