Rick Riordan Quotes

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean. You are love. Love is not dependent on the object, but is a radiation of your subjectivity - a radiation of your soul. And the vaster the radiation, the greater is your soul.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Where love is, there God is also.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.