Alan Paton Quotes

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain.

We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

Love is the only engine of survival

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Faith and optimism come from love.

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible