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 * The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
 * eden ahbez, "Nature Boy" (1948)


 * Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
 * Augustine of Hippo, in In epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos, Tractatus VII, 8 [Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Homily 7]


 * Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
 * Steve Conrad, in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) based on the book by Chris Gardner


 * Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
 * Jesus in Matthew 22:37-40 (KJV)


 * Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 * Jesus in Matthew 24:5 (KJV)


 * I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
 * Jesus in Matthew 5:44 - 45 (KJV)


 * Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
 * Jesus in Luke 6:34–35 (NIV)


 * 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.
 * Jesus, in John 13:34-35 (KJV)


 * At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
 * John of the Cross, reported in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2002), p. 231.


 * Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
 * Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977)


 * Love loves to love love.
 * James Joyce, Ulysses (1946), p. 327.


 * There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws fear outside, because fear exercises a restraint. Indeed, he that is under fear has not been made perfect in love.
 * John the Evangelist, 1 John 4:18; 1 John 4:18; New World Translation


 * 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, in The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)


 * When one has once fully entered the realm of Love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for Love.
 * Søren Kierkegaard


 * Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
 * John Lennon, in "Mind Games" on Mind Games (1973)


 * Yes is the answer and you know that for sure.
 * John Lennon, in Mind Games (1973)