Love Quotes

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The universally high value placed on love can be seen in the diversity.

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"Men have differed as regards what people you ought to be unselfish to—whether it was only your own family, or your fellow countrymen, or every one. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has never been admired. Men have differed as to whether you should have one wife or four. But they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked."

	"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
	Martin Luther King

"In the next 60 seconds... the word 'love' will be googled 4,260 times."
Quotation taken from "A Billion for a Billion" video.

	“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” "I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other."
"I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love.I have obeyed my Father's commands, and I remain in his love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. I have told you these things so that you can have the same joy I have and so that your joy will be the fullest possible joy. This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you. The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father."
Taken from the words of Jesus the Messiah of Nazareth as recorded in The Gospel of Matthew 5:38-48; Gospel of Matthew 22:35-40; Gospel of John 13:33-34; Gospel of John 15:9-15

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.

Lyrics from the 1965 song "What the World Needs Now is Love" composed by Hal David... sung here by Jackie DeShannon.

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up. And now they're gone and you wish you could give them everything.
Lyrics from a song by Nelly: "Just A Dream". © 2010 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

"I have no intention of diminishing the power of diet and exercise or, for that matter, of drugs and surgery. There is more scientific evidence now than ever before demonstrating how simple changes in diet and lifestyle may cause significant improvements in health and well-being. As important as these are, I have found that perhaps the most powerful intervention -- and the most meaningful for me and for most of the people with whom I work, including staff and patients -- is the healing power of love and intimacy, and the emotional and spiritual transformation that often result from these. ... I am a scientist. I believe in the value of science as a powerful means of gaining greater understanding of the world we live in.... Although I respect the ways and power of science, I also understand its limitations as well. What is most meaningful often cannot be measured. What is verifiable may not necessarily be what is most important. As the British scientist Denis Burkitt once wrote, "Not everything that counts can be counted." We may not yet have the tools to measure what is most meaningful to people, but the value of those experiences is not diminished by our inability to quantify them."

From the introduction to the book Love and Survival: 8 Pathways to Intimacy and Health by Dean Ornish M.D. Dr. Ornish is the author of several books on healthily lifestyle and diet, such as The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health and Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery

You’re the one that I want No one can take it from me No no no no no Even though I don’t really know you I got a lot of love I wanna show you And you be right there in front of me I see you passing in front of me No no no girl I need your love Baby I need your love
Lyrics from the song "Real Love" (2006) by Massari (مساري) Sari Abboud (ساري عبّود)

I don’t wanna be friends (Caught in a bad romance)… Want your bad romance! I want your love and I want your revenge You and me could write a bad romance
Lyrics from the song "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga

Dinesh D'Souza: I think, the argument about morality is not the fact that we couldn’t be good without God. Think about it this way, if moral rules are universal, then that is something very odd, because if we are evolved primates, driven by an impulse to survive and reproduce, it is conceivable that one group or another might have, through some set of accidents, come up with a set of rules that cut the other direction. Think about the essence of morality, it is to militate against self interest. If morality were congruent with self-interest we wouldn’t need it. Nobody needs to tell you to go out and make money. There’s is a natural drive telling you to do that. No one has to tell you to be powerful, to seek what you want. Morality is the voice that tells you against what you want to do. You’re walking on the river bank. You hear, “Help, help, help, I’m drowning” You’re not a very good swimmer. Your natural instinct is to keep going. That guy is nothing to you. It’s not your brother, it’s not your wife, it’s a stranger. But, the little voice in your head turns on and says, “You should try to help. At least put out a stick.” Now what I ask is, where does this voice that has no Darwinian explanation whatsoever, call it the voice of pure altruism, and can cannot be explained by reciprocal advantage, or genetic kinship or any of the other elaborate theories…. [come from?]

Christopher Hitchens: “Animals do it. Animals do it.”

Dinesh D'Souza: “Well if animals do it that’s interesting in its own right, but it doesn’t mean that that there’s a Darwinian explanation that’s been given. You’ve simply extended the problem further.”

Christopher Hitchens: “Animals do it.”

Moderator: “OK. With that, with that… (laughs)…”

Christopher Hitchens: “Primates do it. Many other mammals do it, for the obvious reason, for the survival of the species…"

Moderator: “With that we must call this part of the debate to an end.”

Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza, July 2008, Las Vegas Nevada, at the Freedom Fest.

"I've spent two thirds of my life with him. My regret is that I didn't tell him that I loved him enough over that entire 34 years."
This quotation is attributed to Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze's widow. Source: the NPR web site October, 2009, after Patrick Swayze lost his battle to Pancreatic cancer.

"I've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logics that lead to reason; but after a lifetime of such pursuits I ask, what truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back, and I have made the most important discovery of my career... the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found."

A quotation from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). The quotation is attributed to John Forbes Nash, Jr., (Nobel prize winner in economics for his work on game theory). The credit for this quotation likely should go to the writer of Nash's biography Sylvia Nasar or the screen play writer Akiva Goldsman who gave these lines to Nash (played by Russell Crowe) in the film.