Without Others there is No Love

“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” – The Buddha

“The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich

“This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.” – Swami Muktananda

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.” – C.S. Lewis

“Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents; never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

  “The essence of love is to cast aside any thought of having others live for oneself: it is to live for the sake of others and give for the whole. Love gives, but then forgets even the fact that it had given and continues to give without ceasing. This is a love that gives in joy. It is the heart that a mother feels when she takes her infant in her arms and lets it feed from her breast.” – Sun Myung Moon