Unconditional Love famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
-- A. J. Jacobs -
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
-- Abba Eban -
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
-- Aberjhani -
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.
-- Alex Sanchez -
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
-- Alfie Kohn -
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
-- Alfie Kohn -
May you bring unconditional love and infinite peace.
-- Alyson Noel -
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
Unconditional Love is our birthright, not judgment or condemnation, and there's nothing we need to do to earn it. This is simply who and what we are.
-- Anita Moorjani -
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
-- Ann Landers -
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]
-- Anne Lamott -
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
-- Anne Parillaud -
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
-- Bell Hooks -
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
-- Brian Houston -
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
-- Byron Katie -
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.
-- Cathleen Falsani -
Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.
-- Chiara Barzini -
I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.
-- Cindy Crawford -
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
-- Colin Powell -
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.
-- Coretta Scott King -
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce...
-- Damian Marley -
The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!
-- David H. Cooke -
Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live into God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other peopleWe read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.
-- David Seamands -
Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.
-- Deb Caletti -
One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
-- Debbie Gibson -
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.
-- Dennis Lehane -
I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed
-- Dennis Prager -
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.
-- Donald Miller -
Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.
-- Elijah Wood -
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.
-- Frans de Waal -
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
-- George W. Bush -
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
-- Gilda Radner -
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
-- Greg Louganis -
When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.
-- Habib Ali al-Jifri -
Soul yearns to return home to God. Home to God means the area of supreme divine love that has no conditions attached to it: unconditional love.
-- Harold Klemp -
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
-- Harold Wilson -
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
-- Henri Nouwen -
The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.
-- Henri Nouwen -
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
-- Henry L. Stimson -
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
-- Henry Rollins -
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
-- Isabel Allende -
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.
-- Jennie Finch -
As you grow and change, you become possibly someone else. You want to go back to your family of origin and say, ‘Do you still love me? Would you still love me if I become X or Y or Z? When will you stop loving me? Is this unconditional love and if not what are the conditions?’
-- Jill Soloway -
If we don’t risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
-- John Bevere -
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
-- John Powell -
The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
-- John Welwood -
There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.
-- Joseph Prince -
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
-- Jourdan Dunn -
The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.
-- Joy Gardner -
God's unconditional love is a very difficult concept for people to accept because, in the world, there's always payment for everything we receive. It's just how things work here. But God is not like people!
-- Joyce Meyer -
There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie -
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE..
-- Kabir -
Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.
-- Karrine Steffans -
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.
-- Kathryn Harrison -
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We've had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It's a wonderful thing for families - the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.
-- Kyra Sedgwick -
There is no unconditional love in the universe.
-- Laura Schlessinger -
We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional loveâ€unconditional love iswe don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.
-- Lauryn Hill -
Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
-- Lauryn Hill -
My dogs are about unconditional love. It's so wonderful to walk in the door from a long day and all they want to do is be loved and to give and give...
-- LeAnn Rimes -
Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.
-- Marc Bekoff -
Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.
-- Marianne Williamson -
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
-- Markus Zusak -
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
-- Martha Beck -
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.
-- Mary Donnelly-Haskell -
My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'
-- Mehmet Oz -
Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.
-- Michelle Obama -
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
-- Miles McPherson -
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
-- Milla Jovovich -
The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.
-- Monica Denise Brown -
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.
-- Nhat Hanh -
The very first time I realized what unconditional love meant ; was the very first time I held each one of my children in my arms. It was love at first sight.
-- Nishan -
The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?
-- Paul Washer -
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other
-- Pink -
When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.
-- Ram Dass -
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
-- Ram Dass -
You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
-- Regina King -
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
-- Robert Wagner -
UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To give iT after your conditions have been meT :P
-- Sherry Argov -
The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.
-- Shinzen Young -
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
-- Sonia Sotomayor -
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
-- Stephen Kendrick -
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.
-- Stephen Kendrick -
To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.
-- Stuart Wilde
