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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIIIIn context
Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- God
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John, 13:34–35 KJVIn context
- Christianity
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919The Way (1913).
- Religion
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIIn context
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of Immortality.
- God
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are.
TMThomas Merton1915–1968Letter to Dorothy Day (20 December 1961).
- Enemies
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!⁠—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIIIIn context
- Life & Death
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Dover Beach (1867), st. 4In context
Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord’s meaning.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 86
- God
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947The Alchemist (1988), p. 157.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
TMThomas Merton1915–1968Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.