Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi · Written in his weekly Young India in 1920, in a passage on love as the force we see between parent and child and must learn to use toward all that lives.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi · Shared everywhere under Gandhi's name, but no speech or writing of his with these words has been found.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Mahatma Gandhi · From the autobiography, in the chapter on his early married life; standard English translation of the Gujarati original.

More Love Quotes

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

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“Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Nothing is impossible for pure love.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”