Og Mandino Quotes

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.