Top 100 Quotes About Loving Others
#1. The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
Lou Holtz
#2. We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
Thomas Merton
#4. The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.
Larry Crabb
#5. Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.
John Berendt
#6. Love yourself as much you can before loving others. If you don't have something, you can't give it to anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Might she have loved her brother so much that she was incapable of loving others?
Oddny Eir
#8. Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma
Natsuki Takaya
#9. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!
Jaime Murray
#10. The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
Joel Osteen
#11. The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.
Cornel West
#12. Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. I
Mitch Albom
#14. Loving others means being willing to do things for their benefit more than your own. And sometimes that looks like a Facebook account!
Mandy J. Hoffman
#15. Life's greatest adventure is love. Loving each other, loving others. And being loved--first by God, then by each other. There's no better purpose.
Melissa Tagg
#16. Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.
Jarrid Wilson
#17. Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.
AnnaSophia Robb
#18. A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
Criss Jami
#19. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#20. Happiness only comes when you make yourself worthy of happiness by loving others.
Debasish Mridha
#21. It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.
Elizabeth George
#22. Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.
Lloyd D. Newell
#23. Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it
Rita Zahara
#24. The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.
Anne Graham Lotz
#25. Loving others is easy, but loving yourself is the true test of real love.
Daliah Husu
#26. Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.
Rollo May
#27. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm
#28. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.
John C. Broger
#30. Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.
Erich Fromm
#31. We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery
#32. Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.
Louise Hay
#33. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob Hope
#34. Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.
Richard Foth
#36. Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself
Wayne Dyer
#37. The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it's up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on ...
James A. Murphy
#38. There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.
Sharon Salzberg
#39. Loving others sometimes requires a love far greater and purer than our own. - Dawn Lilly
Gary Chapman
#40. The greatest reward you get from loving others is love itself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.
Larry Crabb
#42. Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Gary Zukav
#43. Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry - our spirits are starving.
Jen Hatmaker
#44. We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.
Norman Fischer
#45. Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce Meyer
#46. Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
Allan Lokos
#47. Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.
Ryuho Okawa
#48. If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
Victoria Osteen
#49. The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43)
Mitch Albom
#50. Even if you are sick or unhappy today, look for the beautiful things life has to offer: the fact that you are living, breathing and capable of loving others is reason enough to celebrate. Life is beautiful anyway.
Sanchita Pandey
#51. In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin
#52. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#54. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.
T. Scott McLeod
#57. Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#58. If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#60. You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.
Debasish Mridha
#62. If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.
Joyce Brothers
#63. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.
Phillip Moffitt
#64. Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.
Thabiti M. Anyabwile
#66. Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.
Karen Salmansohn
#67. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#68. Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
M. Scott Peck
#69. And seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.
Marianne Williamson
#71. A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.
Deborah Day
#72. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Publilius Syrus
#73. Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.
Ellen J. Barrier
#74. We too can love with the will even when we do not have loving emotions or feelings. We make this distinction toward ourselves quite easily, so we should be able to do it toward others too when necessary.
Peter Kreeft
#75. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
Thomas Merton
#76. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe
Mike Dooley
#77. Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
Thubten Yeshe
#78. The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
Nhat Hanh
#79. People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.
Sonia Choquette
#80. How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.
Fulton J. Sheen
#81. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
Seraphim Rose
#82. Today I am loving and kind to myself and others.
Louise Hay
#83. As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#84. The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'
Mother Teresa
#85. The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!
Kemi Sogunle
#88. Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.
John Eldredge
#89. Thomas was the most loving, wonderful, and attentive husband that I could ever imagine on some days, and on others it was as if I married Lucifer himself.
Sara Niles
#90. I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can't fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.
Steve Maraboli
#91. I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
Taye Diggs
#92. Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.
Myles Munroe
#93. Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.
Doreen Virtue
#95. When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.
Suzy Kassem
#96. Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.
Auliq Ice
#97. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.
Tyler Braun
#98. We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.
C. Terry Warner
#99. But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
Bram Stoker
#100. If you don't know which road to take in life: do what's loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That's the only path leading to light. If it's loving, it builds up, if not, it will only tear down.
Sereno Sky
