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    Anime & Manga 
Vegeta: How... dare youuuuu! THAT'S MY BULMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! YOU BASTAAAAARD!
(Vegeta takes a direct punch to the face from Beerus and powers through it, then begins to pummel him in retaliation)
Master Roshi: This is incredible! Vegeta's anger over Bulma getting hit has made him even stronger than Goku!

Mr. Compress: You... what about your trauma?!
Twice: I overcame it with The Power of Love and courage!
Mr. Compress: ...sure. I'll take your word for it. But that sounds like the first chapter of a hero story or something. You're supposed to be a villain!
Twice: What's wrong with a villain wanting to save his comrades? I've only got a few friends in this world, and that's you guys! You're all precious to me!

Exedore: The danger of contact with the micronians is evident. Our soldiers may be in more jeopardy than we believed.
Lord Britai: It appears that this "love" business is a very powerful thing.
Exedore: I'm afraid I agree with you sir, it does have its attraction. It's an emotional factor against which we Zentradi have no defense. So this "love" could be used as a powerful weapon against us.
Lord Britai: Weapon, eh?
Robotech, "Wedding Bells"

There comes a time
When you face the toughest of fights
Searching for a sign
Lost in the darkest of nights
The wind blows so cold
And you're standing alone
Before the battle's begun
But deep in your soul
The future unfolds
As bright as the rays of the sun

You've got to believe in the power of love
You've got to believe in The Power of Love
It gives meaning to each moment
It's what our hearts are all made of
You've got to believe in The Power of Love
In The Power of Love
Sailor Moon (The '90s English dub soundtrack), "Power of Love"

"If someone truly loves me, I have the special power to turn me into that "Mighty Unicorn" you saw. And I think you love me Beezle."

Unico: What's wrong? She doesn't like me anymore.
Marusu/Sphinx's Daughter: Aw yeah?
Unico: That's right she's leaving me behind isn't she?
Marusu/Sphinx's Daughter: Bonehead she not only likes you, she loves you.
Unico: No she doesn't, if she did. She wouldn't go away and... leave me here. She wouldn't.
Marusu/Sphinx's Daugher: It's because she loves you that she's making you stay here. She doesn't want you to have to suffer too! She's going to find the end of the world all by herself. She's really something else!
Unico: (happily) Ah you're right. Cheri! Wait Cheri! You do love me, you do! And. I. Love. You! (turns into The Mighty Unicorn) I can help you Cheri, I can!

Unico: (after seeing Chao preparing to eat a beetle) "You can't eat that!
Chao: [crying] But. I'm so hungry!
Unico: [comforting Chao as she cried herself to sleep] I'll go find something out in the forest. [monologuing] I know! I like Chao. I want to do something for her... And I have the feeling I can! Did I have some kind of mysterious power like that...? [closes his eyes in a peaceful manner] For someone who loves me... For the sake of the one I love... Whatever Chao is dreaming right now... Come here right now!
[magically summons piles of fish under Chao]
Chao [surprised] Purrmeow!
Unico, "The Cat on the Broomstick"

    Comic Books 
Captain America: Going... to put you down...
Carnage: This isn't like last time, when you and your @$%# friends "put me down" with the power of love or whatever the Hell happened. It's all hatred and darkness in Doverton. For instance, last night, I made a mother and her children promise to kill their father. There is no love here. Pray to God I don't make you help.
Carnage U.S.A

"Love is not restricted to romantic love between two ponies. It takes a number of forms: love of family, love of friends, love of country, love of self. It's not that my love is better, but that I have an extraordinary capacity for love that can be channeled into my magic. It makes me stronger, but beyond that, it makes those I love stronger."

For hearts long lost and full of fright,
For those alone in blackest night,
Accept our ring and join our fight,
Love Conquers All— with violet light!

Loki: Oh, ugh. Is love really going to save us all?
America: Of course it is. Anyone who thinks otherwise gets stomped into paste.
Young Avengers vol.2 #13

    Fan Works 
"How did you get here?"
"With the power of love!... or anime plot holes. I don't know which."

Asuna: Don't worry, Kirito, I've got your back! With the two of us, our love can conquer anythi-
(WHAM)
Kirito: (slurred) The Power of Love is bullshit. The Power of Swords and Violence, that's where the money is...

"Love is not so foreign a concept to me. Indeed I have nothing but adoration for the things love can do. Love can corrupt the soul faster than any other emotion. People kill for love. Pervert themselves for love. Why, people will even betray their greatest ideals, longest held companions, and challenge the very foundations of the world as we know it... all for the sake of their love for one person. How could I not respect that kind of power? The difference between us, Celestia, is that I don’t allow love to weaken me as it does you."

    Films — Animation 
Love is a song that never ends.
Life may be swift and fleeting.
Hope may die, yet love's beautiful music
Comes each day like the dawn.

Love is a song that never ends;
One simple theme repeating.
Like the voice of a heavenly choir,
Love's sweet music flows on.
Bambi, "Love Is a Song"

"A hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart."
Zeus, Hercules

Karasu: It's pathetic what happened to my sister. I looked up to her, she was so strong...and love made her weak!
Monkey: No, it made me stronger!

"Courage of the heart is very rare. The Stone has a power when it's there."
Nicodemus, The Secret of NIMH

Merlin: Aye, you know, lad, that love business is a powerful thing.
Arthur/Wart: Greater than gravity?
Merlin: Well yes, boy. In its way, I'd... uh... Yes, I'd say it's the greatest force on Earth.

Elsa: You sacrificed yourself for me?
Anna: I love you.
Olaf: [gasps] An act of true love can heal a frozen heart!
Elsa: Love will thaw... love... of course! Love!

    Films — Live-Action 
Love is stronger than witchcraft.

There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the Source and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded

The Operative: He spent his entire fortune developing the contracts to infiltrate this place.
Doctor Mathias: Gave up a brilliant future in medicine as well. That's madness.
The Operative: Madness? Look at his face, doctor. It's love, in point of fact, something a great deal more dangerous.

Mal: You know what the first rule of flying is? ...'Course you do, as you already know what I'm about to say.
River: I do. But I like hearing you say it anyways.
Mal: ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down, tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.

Barry Egan: I have so much strength in me you have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Erzengel: The word that rings joyfully throughout creation, the word that alleviates every pain and sorrow, the word that absolves all the guilt of humanity, the eternal word. Dost thou not know it?
Mephisto: What is the word?
Erzengel: Love!

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
Westley, The Princess Bride

"Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords."
Buttercup, The Princess Bride

"Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."
Sarah, The Crow

"A building gets torched, all that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything, families, friends, feelings. But now I know, that sometimes if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart."
Sarah, The Crow

"A Fairy's Love makes anything possible."
Oona, Legend (1985)

"Someone once said, go too far from home and you will lose your roots. Kill too many people and you will forget yourself. If you die in battle, your life will sink into the ground like rain and vanish without a trace. If at that time, you fall in love with someone, hope will blossom again from the earth and embrace life with passion. Wentai, thank you."

"If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live."
Johnny, The Room (2003)

"Every age is the same. It's only love that makes any of them bearable."

Lord of Gath: Your lion has become a mouse.
Saran of Gaza: Changed by the magic of love.

"Love is stronger than death... even than life."

Ed... remember me. [The demon] tried to turn you against me because she thinks our love is our weakness, but it's not. It's not. It's our strength. Now, open your eyes...

"There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how love could release us all from the power of darkness. Our love is stronger than death."
Mina Murray, Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Literature 
So many terrible things are done for love. For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins - but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.

    Live-Action TV 
The world's about to burn [if you don't]; for God's sake, kiss the girl!
The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Lodger"

Well, you took me in, you stole my heart,
I cannot roam no more.
Because love, it stays within you,
It does not wash up on a shore.
But a fighting man forgets each cut
Each knock, each bruise, each fall,
But a fighting man cannot forget
Why his love don't roam no more.

Oh, reel me in, my precious girl,
Come on, take me home.
'Cause my body's tired of travelling
And my heart don't wish to roam.''
Doctor Who, "Love Don't Roam"

Love, in all its forms, is the most powerful weapon we have, because love is a form of hope and, like hope, love abides in the face of everything.
The Doctor, Doctor Who, "Demons of the Punjab"

There's a powerful magic when two hearts are one,
A powerful magic, bright as the sun,
Goodness will triumph, and evil's undone,
When you dare to heed love's call,
'Cause love is the most powerful magic of all.

There are worlds beyond and worlds within which the explorer must explore, but there is one power which seems to transcend space and time, life and death. It is a deeply human power which holds us safe and together when all other forces combine to tear us apart. We call it the power of love.
The Outer Limits, closing narration for "The Borderland"

People want to believe in something greater, and it may be easier to hate, but it's stronger to love.
Clark Kent, Smallville, "Finale, Part 2"

One thing I've learned is that love is the strongest power in the universe. It's stronger than evil. It's even stronger than death. My feelings for you were the only thing that kept me going down there in Tartarus. It was like I was carrying my own Elysian Field inside of me.

    Music 
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
All you need is love.
The Beatles, "All You Need is Love"

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to
The love you make.
The Beatles, "The End"

With our love, with our love
We could save the world, if they only knew
The Beatles, "Within You Without You"

The power of love,
A force from above,
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire,
Love, with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "The Power of Love"

Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream.
Make a bad one good, make a wrong one right-
the power of love will keep you warm at night!

And it don't take money, don't take fame,
Don't need no credit card to ride this train.
It's strong and it's sudden, and it can be cruel sometimes,
But it just might save your life-
That's the power of love!
Huey Lewis and the News, "The Power of Love"

And we walk together into the light
And my love will be your armor tonight
We are lionhearts
And we stand together facing a war
And our love is gonna conquer it all.''
Demi Lovato, "Lionheart"

Love is mystical
Love will break the chains
You might feel invincible
And you might be afraid
Light in darkness will show you the way
Give you the power to believe again
Cold War Kids, "Love Is Mystical"

The sound of your heart beating
Made it clear suddenly.
The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away.
Cause I am your lady and you are my man....
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn 'bout the power of love
Jennifer Rush, "The Power of Love"

I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore.
Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more.
But the Master of the Sea heard my despairing cry.
From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.

Love Lifted Me.
Love Lifted Me.
When nothing else could help,
Love Lifted Me.
— "Love Lifted Me", traditional Christian hymn

I raised by hand, my hands like lead, my heart ablaze once more
The faerie queen looked down on me, shaken to the core
"I've played for many centuries yet, by the stars above, you've taught me skill is not enough"
"It can't compare to love"
— "Faerie Queen", Alexander James Adams

When I look in your eyes
I'm bigger than the night sky.
Take That, "Giants"

You kissed my dying mouth
My blood began to warm
My life was running out
But I was hoping to be reborn
[Chorus]
I levitate towards you
And the way that you move
I rise to the occasion of a dream come true
Don't hesitate when I do...
Imelda May, "Levitate"

    Mythology and Religion 
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
St. Paul, Colossians 3:12-14

We know that we have passed from death to life
because we love our brothers.
Whoever does not love remains in death.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer,
and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Let me be a seal upon your heart,
Like the seal upon your arm.
For love is fierce as death,
Passion is mighty as Sheol;
Its darts are darts of fire,
A blazing flame.
Vast floods cannot quench love,
Nor rivers drown it.
If a man offered all his wealth for love,
He would be laughed to scorn.
Song of Songs 8:6-7

    Poetry 
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least.
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 29"

    Theatre 
Ye shouldna' be too surprised, lad. I told ye when ye love someone deeply anythin' is possible. Even miracles.
Mr. Lundie, closing line of Brigadoon

    Video Games 
According to my research, about 70% of a hero's power comes from absorbing this strange energy called "love."
Mao, Disgaea 3

Take a melody, simple as can be.
Give it some words and sweet harmony.
Raise your voices, all day long now, love grows strong now.
Sing a melody of love, oh love...

Love is the power!
Love is the glory!
Love is the beauty and the joy of spring.

Love is the magic!
Love is the story!
Love is the melody we all can sing.
EarthBound Beginnings, "The Eight Melodies"

Nooj: What about Shuyin?
Yuna: Plan B!
Nooj: Oh?
Yuna: Love.
Gippal: Nuu puo. (Hoo boy.)
Nooj: The ultimate illusion.
Yuna: It'll work! I've come this far to bring Lenne's feelings to Shuyin. I'm not stopping now.
Leblanc: The power of love conquers all! So romantic! Count me in.

Sabuko: Impossible! Defeated by a pair of schoolgirl deviants... how?
Misako: Just cause we're young...
Kyoko: And cute!
Misako: Don't mean we can't tear down this whole town to get our boyfriends back.
Sabuko: Wretched little girls... you should respect power when you see it!
Misako: You may have mystical tattoo creatures...
Kyoko: And a really sharp sword...
Misako: But that's nothing compared to the power we have!
Sabuko: ...and that is?
Misako: You wanna tell her?
Kyoko: Let's do it together!
M & K: The power of... [double kick] LOVE!!!

"It was as though the prodigal son had returned. They welcomed me as though I had never left, never done anything to shame them. The fire that had kept me alive was love. Their love. God's love. I will never be able to repay the debt that I owe to them, but I must try."
Joshua Graham, Fallout: New Vegas

"It's said that love is the most powerful force in the universe. I am attempting to harness that power to create weapons of mass destruction."

    Visual Novels 

Gaap: Ahhahahahahahahahahaha...!! The strength of love? Then why are you so weak, boy? Does that weakness mean your love is also that weak? * giggle* giggle* ! Even your love for your fiance is weak. The way your parents died so quickly was weak. Everything about your life is weak.
George: ...Shannon taught me about love and strength. If you are trying to measure my love towards Shannon by my strength alone, ...let me teach you about my love.
Umineko: When They Cry, Episode 4

    Web Comics 
Love is a very powerful force. Even more so when it's focused into a coherent beam of destruction. Every time I cast Hadoken, it siphons away some of the love in the universe. I'm not sure how much, but I'm given to understand the divorce rate goes up with each blast.
Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater

"Love makes the world go 'round. And has been known to provide a +2 circumstance bonus to certain skill checks."
Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick

    Web Original 
"All things must die, Shandala. We cannot change this. But you can bring the heavens to your heart in life. Give yourself to those that need. If you do this, then the world is truly blessed... for it has known your love."
Mama Tui, Broken Saints Chapter 16, Act 2

"Being defeated again, by the power of love? It's not possible!"

If [Gloopstick]'s unbreakable, they'll never get their new dog free! But luckily, they stumble upon a solution. THE MOST FOREHEAD-SLAPPING, BRAIN-BASHING, DUMBEST SOLUTION EVER. Is the solution to Gloopstick water? Nope, worse. Is it some random magic word? No, worse than that. Is it Pikachu's tears? EVEN WORSE. Are you ready? Are you REALLY ready? It turns out that Gloopstick can only be dissolved by.....

LOVE!

Charlie Brown: AAUGH!

This is going to be seriously TL;DR so you guys were warned. Guy in the TV series is a walking corpse. He died during the EI-01 incident. He was brought back by his father through the power of SCIENCE! but it wasn't really a true resurrection. Most of his body is gone. A head, a face, a few vital organs, the rest is cold metal. And he knows it. His old life is gone, the only thing he has left is the protection of the living. But the problem is those Guy left behind. Mikoto sees her old love right there, and wants to be taken into his arms, but he can't. He's not a living human anymore. He's dead. Mikoto should give up on him, move on, find someone living. Guy cares for her, and protects her, but he can't love her. Not any more. So Mikoto pines for a dead man, like a widow who can't accept her loss.

In the meantime, Guy fights to protect the living, being the most alive when in the heat of battle. But even then, there is the irony, the reminder of the inhuman thing he has become. His opponents are cyborgs, ordinary humans turned into the mechanical Zonders. And so even as he fights them, he fights FOR them. His victory will return them to normal. However, he himself can never be returned to his normal life. No amount of G-Stone energy, not even Mamoru's powers can restore him. So he fights, always for others, never for himself. Always denying his true desires, for they are the lost wishes of a dead man.

Eventually he triumphs, first against EI-01, then the ancient frighting Primevals themselves. His cyborg shell bruised, battered, and the giant machine that is his second body is at the brink of ruin. His loyal AI companions are in the same state of disrepair. They have their victory, but it was hard fought.

And then, in the calm after the storm, they discover it was merely the eye of the storm. The Zonders live. Mikoto has become the enemy. The seed in her body has awakened, and she has become the next generation of the primevals legacy. This new entity is immune G-Stone energy. The old weakness no longer works, Mamoru's magic can't restore her. And so, once more, Guy goes into battle, this time against the remains of the woman who loved him, she too is now a mechanical corpse that can no longer be human.

His friends, the Braves, lend their AI to the failing GaoMachines, and they go into the fray. The Zonuda is frightening. It assimilates all that it touches. All of GGG's trumpcards are useless. So they are discarded, and GGG fights with tooth and claw. So Guy shreds the Zonuda down, till only the core remains. Mamoru is unconscious, but it does not matter. His powers are useless, this thing was created to evolve beyond the ability of the ultimate anti-Zonder weapon.

The core, the last remnants of Mikoto's consciousness, pleads, "kill me, Guy." It is the only way. Mikoto can't be saved, she can only be destroyed. To save the city, the world, and the galaxy itself, she must die. Guy has fought this entire time only for others, he just needs to make one last sacrifice for the sake of the world.

He doesn't. He embraces his love. He accepts her love and gives his in return. And then instead of his trademark shouts, he answers with a whisper; "If you die, I die with you." He accepts his own death finally, but only if it with the woman he loves. He finally has the courage to confess, to accept his own love, the love he denied so long. That was his greatest moment of courage. And in the presence of an artifact that changes courage into miracles, it's enough. His love, his greatest courage does the impossible. He and Mikoto can never be human again, so they are transfigured into beings greater than human. Evoluders. His flesh is restored, and can finally hold Mikoto in his arms once more. That was the miracle brought by courage.

I'm going to go cry now.
— An Anon on The Power of Love in GaoGaiGar, /m/

John McFinalfantasy: "The power of LOVE will defeat you."
Bigbad McChaos: "Oh FUCK WHY DOES LOVE FEEL LIKE FIRE AND SWORDS??!"
RemChi, in a comment on Know Your Meme about JRPG tropes.

Vegeta: What are you doing with that? (referring to Android 18)
Krillin: I'm taking her to a... doctor? Mechanic? A Bulma... I'm taking her to a Bulma.
Vegeta: You put that RealDoll down this instant.
Krillin: Yeah, how about no?
Vegeta: I can RIP. YOU. IN. HALF!
Krillin: I know you can.
Vegeta ...When did you get the balls?
Krillin If I said it didn't have anything to do with holding a beautiful woman in my arms, I'd be a liar.

"Pain doesn't make people. It's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential. It's love that saves them. And you would know that, but you have none around you, you said so yourself, you surround yourself with lies and deceptions. And I wish for you in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully."
Caduceus Clay, to Trent Ikithon, Critical Role

    Western Animation 
"This is it, the ultimate weapon against evil. The power of l... l... l... liking someone a lot."
Finn, Adventure Time

Azula: I never expected this from you! The thing I don't understand is why? Why would you do it? You know the consequences...
Mai: I guess you don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you.

Declaration: You cannot mock love, for it was love that created you.
Red Tornado to his son Tornado Champion, Batman: The Brave and the Bold

"Steven, your mother had healing tears that flowed from her gem. She felt real love for those around her; she felt real sorrow when they were hurt. You have the Rose Quartz gem now. I know that power is in you, too."
Garnet to Steven, Steven Universe

"If we wish to change the world, we must all learn to love each other.'"
Caline Bustier, Miraculous Ladybug episode "Zombizou"

Bubbles: What happened to Professor Dick and the other Powerpuff Girls?
Professor: Well, old Dick may have gotten the formula right, but the one ingredient he forgot was love.
The Powerpuff Girls (1998), "Knock It Off"

There's a bond you'll never know
A power you can't feel
The love you give comes back to you
And makes you strong as steel
If I remember those I love
And keep them close to heart
My love will shine from deep within,
And chase away the dark!

[...]
I may be small and on my own
But I can feel how much I've grown!
My will is strong, my heart is true!
My love will be!...
THE END!...
OF!!...

YOU!!!
Sofia defeating Vor, Sofia the First

I see you're driven by your detestation
Your every step is stoked with animus
You need a different type of motivation
Or there's no way that you can handle this

I know you're thirstin' for vengeance, Vaggie
You're out for blood
But you'll only stand a chance if you're out for love

Out for love, love
Think of who you care about
Protect them and be out
For love, love
You're gonna fight without gloves
Long as you're out for love

Fuel yourself with the fear of losin'
That somebody who's your reason to live
Harnеss your heart and you can't help choosin'
To fight with all you can give

I know you'rе thirstin' for vengeance, Vaggie
You're out for blood
But you'll only stand a chance if you're out for love

Out for love, love
Think of who you care about
Protect them and be out
For love, love
You're gonna fight without gloves
And when that push comes to shove
Yeah, you just might rise above
Long as you're out for love
"Out For Love", Hazbin Hotel

    Real Life 
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Sri Chinmoy Ghose

Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love.
— Graffiti found in the ruins of Pompeii

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

For many years we've been trying, in our own bumbling way, to illustrate that love is a far greater force, a far greater power than hate. Now we don't mean you're expected to go around like a pirouetting Pollyanna, tossing posies at everyone who passes by, but we do want to make a point. Let's consider three men: Buddha, Christ, and Moses...men of peace, whose thoughts and deeds have influenced countless millions throughout the ages, and whose presence still is felt in every corner of the earth. Buddha, Christ, and Moses...men of good will, men of tolerance, and especially men of love. Now, consider the practitioners of hate who have sullied the pages of history. Who still venerates their words? Where is homage still paid to their memory? What banners still are raised to their cause? The power of love and the power of hate. Which is most truly enduring? When you tend to despair...let the answer sustain you.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller

The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and passion of a very few people.


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