A collection of quotes about love, peace, and unity.
LOVE
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Leo Tolstoy
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
Francois Mauriac
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life… it’ll change yours.”
Mandy Hale
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
George Eliot
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Leo Tolstoy
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
George Orwell
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
George Eliot
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great.”
Roger de Rabutin de Bussy
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Mother Teresa
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”
Anne Sullivan
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
“Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. “
Robert Fulghum
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo Coelho
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Erich Fromm
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Love is a great beautifier.”
Louisa May Alcott
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
“Between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.”
Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow
“Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression.”
Debasish Mridha
“Even when love isn’t enough, somehow it is.”
Stephen King
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Thomas Fuller
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”
Mother Teresa
“There is no remedy for love ,but to love more.”
Thoreau
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Khalil Gibran
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love can be used for anything you can explain, any good thing that you can explain,”
Dr. Angelou said during her SuperSoul chat with Oprah in 2013.
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Love is the expression of one’s values.”
Ayn Rand
“Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.”
Matthew Donnelly
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
George Eliot
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”
Theodore Dreiser
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
Anais Nin
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
Wayne Dyer
“I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
Fred Rogers
“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu
PEACE
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
Lao Tzu
“Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”
Wayne Dyer
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.”
Wayne W. Dyer
“Don’t search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.”
Baba Hari Das
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”
J. Donald Walters
“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”
John F. Kennedy
“Peace brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth aiming for in all circumstances.”
Estella Eliot
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.”
Hafsat Abiola
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
Ronald Reagan
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.”
John Lewis
“When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.”
Maha Ghosananda
“World peace begins with inner peace.”
14th Dalai Lama
“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”
Arthur Powell Davies
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Desmond Tutu
“Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“You were placed on this earth to create not to compete.”
Robert Anthony
“Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
Thomas a Kempis
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert Muller
“If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.”
14th Dalai Lama
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
Deepak Chopra
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
A.J. Muste
“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.”
John Harricharan
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
“Peace is every step.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace is its own reward.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace without justice is an impossibility.”
Desmond Tutu
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
Elie Wiesel
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
Elie Wiesel
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Helen Keller
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
Amelia Earhart
“Peace begins with a smile.”
Mother Teresa
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
UNITY
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
Mattie Stepanek
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
Bahá’u’lláh
“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.”
Ethiopian Proverb
“Unity and victory are synonymous.”
Samora Machel
“There is beauty and power in unity. We must be united in heart and mind. One world, one people.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.”
Theodore Bikel
“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.”
Henry Adams
“Even the weak become strong when they are united.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Kofi Annan
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“No man can lead man, we have to have unity.”
Bob Marley
“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.”
Edward Kennedy
“There is more power in unity than division.”
Emanuel Cleaver
“The peoples of the earth are one family.”
Ruth Benedict
“Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
Mattie Stepanek
“Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.”
Thomas Paine
“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.”
Henry Adams
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.”
Askhari Johnson Hodari
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
Ryunosuke Satoro
“Little birds can defeat lions if they get united.”
Saadi shirazi
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose.”
Priscilla Shirer
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
Vince Lombardi
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
George Eliot
“The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.”
Queen Elizabeth II
“Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
Michael Jordan
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
Patrick Lencioni
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
Ken Blanchard
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
Henry Ford
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
Phil Jackson
“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”
Mike Schmoker
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”
Mike Krzyzewski
“You May Have The Greatest Bunch Of Individual Stars In The World, But If They Don’t Play Together, The Club Won’t Be Worth A Dime.”
Babe Ruth
“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.”
Ted Kennedy
“I may not know you, but I don’t see any difference between you and me. I see myself in you; we are one.”
Debasish Mridha
“The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Dave Zebian
Everything is ONE!”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
Swami Vivekananda