1961 Quotes

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

Related topics: Romantic Love

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie