Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing. — Brother Lawrence
Many people say that you have to love yourself first before you can love others, but really, if you learn to love others, you will learn to love yourself. — Brianna Wiest
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama
Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion — Swami Vivekananda
Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well. — E. W. Howe
Short Loving Others Quotes
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them. — Adrienne von Speyr
A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others. — Sayings
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. — Thomas Merton
Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first. — Muhammad
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here. — Sayings
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
Love Yourself Before Loving Others Quotes
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. — Buddha
Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you. — Jessica Chastain
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? — Buddha
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God. — Kevin DeYoung
Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself? — Debbie Ford
Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own. — Demi Lovato
Christian Quotes
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. — Charles Schumer
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. — Saint Augustine
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of my way because I want to live my life and I don't want the government sucking 60% of my wages off my ass. — Alex Jones
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham
Loving Others Unconditionally Quotes
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us. — John Bevere
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. — Tara Brach
A soulmate is someone you can completely be yourself with. Someone with whom you share unconditional love and when you look into each other's eyes, you know that you are home. — Arielle Ford
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love. — Arsi Nami
To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love. — Terry Eagleton
Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you. — Wallace D. Wattles
There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
Lds Quotes
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference! — Neal A. Maxwell
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew
Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. — Thomas S. Monson
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead. — J. Reuben Clark
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. — Myrtle Fillmore
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. — Ezra Taft Benson
Loving Yourself And Others Quotes
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Nhat Hanh
Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love. — Confucius
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
Caring For Others Quotes
We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think. — Tommy Douglas
No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. — Fred Hollows
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other. — Desmond Tutu
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller
Serving Others Quotes
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. — Booker T. Washington
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more. — Dave Willis
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. — Dale Carnegie
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. — Cesar Chavez
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God. — Brother Lawrence
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord. — Irenaeus of Lyons
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat. — Sun Yat-sen
Helping Others Quotes
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. — Dalai Lama
Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously. — Francis of Assisi
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other. — Ibn Taymiyyah
Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. — Mother Teresa
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. — Unknown Author
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. — Saint Augustine
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Kindness To Others Quotes
Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others. — Grace Kelly
So shines a good deed... in a weary world. — Gene Wilder
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. — Unknown Author
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. — Ellen G. White
Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated. — Rosa Parks
My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby. — Anthony Jeselnik
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others. — Saint John Chrysostom
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others. — Immortal Technique
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. — John Steinbeck
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired. — John of the Cross
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. — Euripides
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. — Francois Mauriac
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. — Pierre Corneille
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. — Tecumseh
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. — Eldridge Cleaver
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. — William Hazlitt
The way to bless God is to bless someone He loves. Bless someone in need. — James Robison
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'. — Dorothy Day
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. — Harriet Tubman
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other. — Bell Hooks
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains. — Assata Shakur
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold. — Thomas Cole
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. — Huey Newton
Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. — Nizar Qabbani
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. — Mother Teresa
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. — Paul the Apostle
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. — William Wilberforce
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