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Love The root of the word "love" can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *leubh-, meaning "to care, desire, love". This dates back approximately 5,000 years ago. As the Proto-Indo-European language evolved into different branches. In Latin, it became "lubet" meaning "it pleases." In Sanskrit, it became "lubhyati" meaning "he desires." In Germanic languages, it evolved through forms like "lubo", "liube", "liebe", and "lob. In Old English (c. 450-1100 AD), the word appeared as "lufu", meaning "feeling of love, romantic sexual attraction, affection, friendliness, the love of God". By the 13th century (1200s), "love" was being used to refer to a beloved person. Love letters were also being sent by this time. "Love is the first medicine; it is from love that all things are born." Ojibwa Teachings |
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Baha'i Faith: "Love is the greatest law to be applied to all relationships." Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas "Let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path." Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words Buddhism: "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." Dhammapada, 1:5 "May all beings be happy; may all beings be without disease; may all beings experience the sensation of auspiciousness and peace." Metta Sutta Christianity: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39 "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." John 15:13 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." 1 Corinthians 13:4 "Let all that you do be done in love." 1 Corinthians 16:14 Confucianism: "To love others means to be respectful and benevolent." The Analects, 12:22 "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." The Analects, 12:2 Hinduism: "Those who love me with all their hearts will be loved in return." Bhagavad Gita, 9:29 "Love all beings; that is your highest duty." Bhagavata Purana, 10.14.55 Islam: "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 13 "The most merciful of those on earth will receive mercy from the One who is in heaven." Sunan Abu Dawood, Hadith 4941 Jainism: "In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate." Acaranga Sutra "One should not injure, subjugate, enslave, torture, or kill any animal or living being." Tattvartha Sutra Judaism: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Leviticus 19:18 "Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs." Proverbs 10:12 Shinto: "Love is the bond that unites us with the kami (spirits) and with all of nature." Shinto Teachings "The loving heart is the shrine of the gods." Shinto Wisdom Sikhism: "Where there is love, there is God." Guru Granth Sahib, 1373 "Love is the greatest virtue; through love, the divine is realized." Guru Granth Sahib, 62 Stoicism (Philosophy): "To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.8 "Nature gave us love to live by reason." Seneca, Letters Taoism: "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires." Tao Te Ching 19 Zoroastrianism: "Through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, one shall love and serve the divine." Avesta, Yasna 60.11 "Love is the essence of all that is good; it fosters unity and harmony." Avesta, Gathas Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato): "Love is the pursuit of the whole, the desire for unity." Plato, Symposium "Love is the divine madness." Plato, Phaedrus Epicureanism (Philosophy): "Friendship dances around the world, bidding us all to awaken to the call of love." Epicurus, Vatican Sayings "We cultivate love to find pleasure and avoid pain." Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus Humanism (Philosophy): "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama, Humanist Teachings "To love another person is to see the face of God." Victor Hugo, Les Misérables New Age Philosophy: "Love is the highest frequency you can emit, and the greatest force to transform your life." Rhonda Byrne, The Secret "Radiate boundless love toward the entire world." Universal Principle of Love Native American Spirituality: "Love is the first medicine; it is from love that all things are born." Ojibwa Teachings "Walk in beauty with love for the Earth and all living beings." Navajo Wisdom Unitarian Universalism: "Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law." UU Principles "Standing on the side of love means reaching out in compassion and justice." UU Teachings |
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Ahmadiyya: "Love for All, Hatred for None" (Motto of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) Ancient Greek Philosophy: "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies" (Aristotle) Baha'i Faith: "Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man" (Abdu'l-Bahá) Buddhism: "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule" (The Dhammapada) "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive" (Dalai Lama) Christianity: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud" (1 Corinthians 13:4) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son" (John 3:16) Confucianism: "To love a thing means wanting it to live" (Confucius, The Analects) Daoism: "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love" (Lao Tzu) Hinduism: "Where there is love there is life" (Mahatma Gandhi) "Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation" (Rabindranath Tagore) Islam: "None of you [truly] believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself" (Hadith) "The best of you are those who are best to their wives" (Hadith) Jainism: "Love and let love" (Mahavira) Judaism: "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18) "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away" (Song of Solomon 8:7) Native American Spirituality: "Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die" (Oglala Lakota proverb) Neopaganism: "Where there's fear, there's power" (Starhawk) New Thought: "Love is the eternal first breath" (Ernest Holmes) Philosophy: "Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods" (Plato) We are shaped and fashioned by what we love" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Rastafarianism: "Love, loyalty, and humanity is the reality of life" (Haile Selassie I) Shinto: "Love is the spirit of the kami" (Shinto proverb) Sikhism: "Those who have loved are those that have found God" (Guru Granth Sahib) Sufism: "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) Taoism: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" (Lao Tzu) Unitarian Universalism: "Love is our doctrine, the quest for truth is our sacrament, and service is our prayer" (Universalist maxim) Wicca: "If you harm none, do what you will" (Wiccan Rede) Zoroastrianism: "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds" (Zoroastrian motto) |