Quotes · Skopia

27 quotes

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom · 1994

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.

Apostle Paul

Romans 13:8 · 56

★ 5.7

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass · 1855

★ 5.5

Poem

The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of Love.

William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey · 1798

★ 5.3

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Jean Valjean

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 4.6

Speech

God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Nobel Prize Lecture, Nobel Prize Lecture, 1972 · 1979

★ 4.5

Epigram

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 4.4

Novel

By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace · 1869

★ 4.0

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

When you really love somebody, you got to love everything about them. You got to love the crust of a motherfucker. You can’t just love the white part of the bread. You got to love the crust, the crumbs, the little fuckin' crumbs at the bottom of the toaster. That’s what the real motherfucker is.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker · 1999

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

By love serve one another.

Apostle Paul

Galatians 5:13 · 50

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

No one is to seek his own advantage, but rather that of his neighbor.

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 10:24 · 55

★ 3.6

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Thomas Fuller (physician)

1732

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.6

Novel

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

1943

★ 3.6

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are.

Desmond Tutu

2000

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough.

Duke

The Notebook · 2004

★ 3.5

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Beloved, let us love one another.

1st John 4:7

★ 2.1

Play

Only the soul that loves is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1788

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Jesus

John 15:12 · 90

★ 2.0

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