James Russell Lowell Quotes

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

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

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

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 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.

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

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

The religion of humanity is love.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

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

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

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.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.