Power And Love Quotes

• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

  William E. Gladstone

  Love, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sentimental

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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  For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Truth

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• When love beckons to you, follow him,
  Though his ways are hard and steep.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hippie, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Romantic, Memorable

  "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, (p. 167), 2004.

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Next, This World

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.

  Motsi Mabuse

  Love, Strong, Humble

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Change, Anniversary

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