George MacDonald Quotes

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

You have to think with the heart.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.