Foundation of Love Quotes

I feel it's very important to build your foundation first before sharing your relationship with the world.

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

How can we not talk about family when family is all we got

Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble.

Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.