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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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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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  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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• 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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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Pregnancy

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Power, Greatest Fear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  Rumi

  Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Expectations, Short Love

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• Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

  Hélder Câmara

  Love, Justice, Illusion

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• To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Strong Women, Hurt

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• The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Love, Mulling Over, Earth

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.97, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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