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Apostle Paul4 quotes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. — Apostle Paul · 56By love serve one another. — Apostle Paul · 50No one is to seek his own advantage, but rather that of his neighbor. — Apostle Paul · 55Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. — Apostle Paul · 62Jesus3 quotes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. — Jesus · 90A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. — Jesus · 90Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90Chris Rock1 quote
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 · 1999Desmond Tutu1 quote
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 · 2000Duke1 quote
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 · 2004Francois de La Rochefoucauld1 quote
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 · 1678God1 quote
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. — God · 1405 BCGraham Greene1 quote
One can't love humanity. One can only love people. — Graham Greene · 1943Jean Valjean1 quote
To love another person is to see the face of God. — Jean Valjean · 2012Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
Only the soul that loves is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788Leo Tolstoy1 quote
By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869Marcus Aurelius1 quote
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Mother Teresa1 quote
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 · 1979Nelson Mandela1 quote
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 · 1994The Wizard of Oz1 quote
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Thomas Fuller (physician)1 quote
He that plants trees loves others beside himself. — Thomas Fuller (physician) · 1732W.H. Auden1 quote
We must love one another or die. — W.H. Auden · 1939Walt Whitman1 quote
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 · 1855William Hazlitt1 quote
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt · 1819William Wordsworth1 quote
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of Love. — William Wordsworth · 1798