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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.
— Hill Harper
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
— Thomas Merton
No three words have greater force than "I want you, " greater strength than "I need you, " greater might than "I miss you, " and greater power than "I love you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not possible to be intimate with nore than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. There is, however, one universal basis for friendship with all men: we are all loved by God, and I should desire them all to love Him with all their power. ... the truth remains that our destiny is to love one another as Christ has loved us.
— Thomas Merton
being loved disinterestedly reminds us that we all need love from others, and depend upon the charity of others to carry on our own lives. And we refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation.
— Thomas Merton
All these three answers are insufficient. The third says we must love only ourselves. The second says we must love only another. The first says that in loving another we simply seek the most effective way to love ourselves. The true answer, which is supernatural, tells us that we must love ourselves in order to be able to love others, that we must find ourselves by giving ourselves to them. The words of Christ are clear: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
— Thomas Merton
I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.
— Napoleon Hill