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“To be Christian, we must love our neighbor now. So not a platonic love, not an ideal love: active love.”
Chiara Lubich (1920–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Hispanic culture is not about language only, it's about love for God, love for country, love for history and culture, and love for family. And as a Filipina with a unique heritage, I have instilled that. I am ready to promote the Hispanic culture, not just in Asia but in the whole world. It is time to celebrate the Hispanic culture. It is meant to be celebrated. Gracias.”
Winwyn Marquez (born 1992) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MUST READ: Winwyn Marquez's winning answer in Reina Hispanoamericana 2017 GMANetwork.com
“I love my dreams so much that no matter what the problem, no matter what the test, I will do it. I love my dreams, I love my job, I love everything about this, so I feel like I will do anything to make my dream come true,”
Maris Racal (born 1997) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maris Racal says she nearly gave up on showbiz after past issue, John Patrick Magno Ranara 5 July 2025.
“What inspired I Do was love. True love to be specific. The song was made to remind people that love you read about in fairy tales or see from your grandparents which is True love, still exists.”
“I love this sport. It’s my passion, my pleasure. I love the track, I love being in a stadium, I love the pain in training and I want my pleasure to last for at least another two or three years.”
Hicham El Guerrouj (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
Tennessee Williams (disputed) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement purportedly made in an interview with James Grissom in 1982; the reliability of this source has been widely disputed since 2023: "Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?" by Helen Shaw, in The New Yo…
“How can you say you love us? You don't love us! You don't even love yourself. You just love your money.”
Donald Trump Jr. (disputed) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 1990 article reposted July 2015 references an unspecified friend of Ivana's saying that Trump Jr. said this at twelve years old, he has not confirmed it
“Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving? Over the sea. Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving? All that love me!”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look under the “Love and Friendship” section and see dozens of cards designed for women to send to women, most bashing men, and virtually none saying anything loving about men.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Industrialization created the “Father’s Catch-22”: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nature of a Divine Being is seen more clearly in deeds which are loving than in deeds which are marvelous. He does not need miracle to make us love him or to prove that he is more than man. The unanswerable argument for his religion is that wherever he is sincerely followed men’s lives are changed.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly — it is incredible to other men.”
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.”
Elizabeth Hand (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The important thing is not that people love you but that you are loving.”
“Every time you go away, I always say This time it's goodbye, dear Loving you the way I do I take you back, without you I'd die dear Knowing I love you so.”
Hal David (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too long I don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.”
Otis Redding (1941–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
“What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?”
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”
John Cage (1912–1992) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
“The rest of the story, to Grand's thinking, was very simple. The common lot of married couples. You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget to love.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In loving life you love what can't survive...”
Erica Jong (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then they were walking along the stream together and he said, “Maria, I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.” “Oh,” she said. “I die each time. Do you not die?” “No. Almost. But did thee feel the earth move?” “Yes. As I died. Put thy arm around me, please.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Thou Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now; Thou lovest not, till from loving more Thou free My soul; Who ever gives, takes liberty; Oh, if Thou carest not whom I love, Alas! Thou lovest not me.”
John Donne (1572–1631) first seen 1619 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany (1619), stanza 3
“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.”
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874
“Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past— Oh, never call it loving!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Woman's Shortcomings", st. 5, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 60 (Oct. 1846), p. 489; reprinted in Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850), vol. 2, p. 399
“I love them for finding what I can't find,and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that a thousand times, till death finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines in other happenings. And for wanting to know it, forassuming there is such a secret, yes, for that most of all.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' grave May I a small house, and large garden have! And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! And since Love ne'er will from mee flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only belov'd, and loving me!”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines (1964)
“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Family and Nation, ch. 1 (1986)
“As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving, And the rosebuds know to bloom in early May, Just as hate knows love's the cure, You can rest your mind assured, That I'll be loving you always.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.”
Plato (429–349 BC) said by 349 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know that our faith sometimes has been used as a wedge to divide us, but we also know that with a big God, with a loving and forceful God, if we unite in his name, we can finish his work on Earth. In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. With a uniting faith, with a God powerful enough to empower us, we can take those bullets out.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's extraordinary what that song has been used for — I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”
Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eric Voegelin (1999), Science, Politics, and Gnosticism in The Collected Works, Vol. 5: Modernity Without Restraint, edited by Manfred Henningsen, , p. 273.
“To all my friends, colleagues and family: I send you love. Please support me in my passage to a new life. I have no other way to thank you than this. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.”
Virginia Satir (1916–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brief biography at Avanta.net (1999)
“Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience." — Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions”
Pat Robertson (1930–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” (All About Love: New Visions, 1999)”
Bell hooks (1952–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.”
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A guide to me in times of plight A princess like a star so bright For life would never have been the same If I hadn’t of learned what small things came. So forgive me Mum just a little more For not loving you so much before, For life and love you gave to me I give my thanks for eternity.”
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of our children when he was two or three years old used to rush at me when he had been naughty, and beat against me, and what he wanted by this monstrous behavior was an affirmation of love. And I would put my arms around him and hold him very tight until the dragon was gone and the loving small boy had returned.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. (p. 208)”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source