Cultivate Love Quotes

#1. Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Martin Scorsese

#2. To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#3. Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Ramakrishna

#4. The supreme purpose and goal for human life ... is to cultivate love.

Ramakrishna

#5. Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Booker T. Washington

#6. The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

Bhante Y. Wimala

#7. I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Booker T. Washington

#8. We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.

Sam Keen

#10. Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted ... For in all the world this state of heart is best.

Gautama Buddha

#11. It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it's important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#12. Your love capability is something you cultivate within yourself.

Bryant McGill

#13. It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

Saji Ijiyemi

#14. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.

Max Barry

#16. My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

#17. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

Sivananda

#18. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#19. Inside you resides an ocean of creative mind, which is bigger than all the land in this world. So cultivate your land to produce all the goods you and your friends need.

Debasish Mridha

#20. In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

Jack Kornfield

#21. Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!

Amanda Mosher

#22. Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

Sri Chinmoy

#23. The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate a world of beauty, safety and harmony.

Bryant McGill

#24. Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#25. The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#26. Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.

Frederick Lenz

#27. The dogs were partly responsible for keeping her sane. The relationship she had with them was pure joy. No ulterior motives, no spite, just love and care and kindness, exactly the emotions she wanted to cultivate.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#28. Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Helen Prejean

#29. All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

Dalai Lama

#30. A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So

Thich Nhat Hanh

#32. To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

John Lancaster Spalding

#33. As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

Nhat Hanh

#34. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#35. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#36. Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Dalai Lama

#37. Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy.

Bajju

#38. But there is an overarching passion that keeps me alive. That is love, understood as a condition in which I can be an inspiration, make someone feel happy and special, and in turn, feel understood and driven. I function better if I am in that condition of love, and I try to cultivate that daily.

Giovanni Frazzetto

#39. When we are young and don't cultivate a healthy lifestyle, we will grow-older and our bodies will reflect the neglect.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#40. All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children
in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

George Eliot

#41. We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#42. Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.

Sathya Sai Baba

#43. I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don't really know for what reason. Just like loves.=

Dacia Maraini

#44. We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

Surya Das

#45. Don't love too blindly: blindly you will love if you love at all, but a little care is still possible to a well-disciplined heart. May that heart be yours as it was not mine. Cultivate the art of renunciation.

Thomas Hardy

#46. Endless love is fueled by endless friendship. If you want to have the greatest romance ever, have the greatest friendship ever. Cultivate it; do not let your friendship die. Remember, it's not a lack of love that destroys relationships; it's usually a lack of friendship.

Steve Maraboli

#47. One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#48. Keep moving. Create routines (but sometimes break them). Be opportunistic. Be a mensch. Believe in something. Lighten up. Cultivate a sense of progress. Don't do it if you don't love it. Begin now.

Bruce Grierson

#49. Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

David Mamet

#50. One of our main purposes in life is to be loving and be kind, but also to cultivate kindness in other's minds.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Fanny Kemble

#52. Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.

Kelis

#53. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#54. If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it.
A Prologue to Love

Taylor Caldwell

#55. We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#56. Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

Deepak Chopra

#57. As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Michel De Montaigne