Dear GOD, I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it. **Nan --from "Kids' Letters To God" (in Untitled)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. --Lao Tzu (in Untitled)

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namastè," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides, I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namastè! --Ram Dass (in Untitled)

Love is the great transformer, turning ambition into aspiration, selfishness into service, greed into gratitude, getting into giving and demands into dedication. --Anonymous (in Untitled)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Untitled)

True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist; nor can it be hidden where it truly does. --La Rouchefaucould (in Untitled)

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. --Julia Butterfly Hill (in What Is Your Tree?)

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. --Stephen Levine (in Untitled)

We forgive to the extent that we love. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld (in A Daily Dose of Kindness)

The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is Love. --Kabir (in Untitled)

There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind. --J. Krishnamurti (in Untitled)

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. --Francois Muriac (in Untitled)

The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference. Thus, the opposite of beauty is not ugliness but indifference. The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of life is not death but indifference to life and death. --Ellie Weisel (in Untitled)

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in Untitled)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in Untitled)

Where there's love, you'll discover a way. --Quotemasters :) (in Untitled)

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above. --Julia A. Fletcher Carney (in Untitled)

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. --Dalai Lama (in Untitled)

When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not a part of you, then there is no one who exists who is not a part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of your world. --Harry Palmer (in Untitled)

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. --Ursula Le Guin (in Pictures of Beauty in Guatemalan Dumps)

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. --Gandhi (in Untitled)

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. --Stephen Levine (in Untitled)

i wish you flowers, sunshine, and smiles. i wish you children that grow to make you proud. i wish you pretty things to wear, sweet things to smell. i wish you good friends that always treat you fair. want to wish you ribbons to tie around your hair. i wish you truckloads of cheer, many happy years. want to wish you freedom to do all the things you love. want to wish you blessings and kindness from above. want to wish you sunlight through the clouds. hope you laugh out loud. i wish you well. --bill withers (in Untitled)

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. --Arundhati Roy (in Untitled)

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Untitled)

Inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive. --James Baldwin (in Untitled)

Meditation means the art of being alone. And love means the art of being with people, the art of being together. But meditation comes first. --Radkhi (in Untitled)

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method, which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Untitled)

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. --Rumi (in Untitled)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Untitled)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in Judge Not)

If you want to be important -- wonderful. If you want to be recognized -- wonderful. If you want to be great -- wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant. --Martin Luther King Jr. (in Untitled)

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. --Osho (in Untitled)

This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. --Peace Pilgrim (in Untitled)

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. -- Willa Cather (in Autism Finds a Miracle Worker)

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. --Dalai Lama (in Untitled)

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life... He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil---he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good -- he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." --Author Unknown (in Untitled)

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. --D. H. Lawrence (in Untitled)

The sandal tree as if to prove, How sweet to conquer hate with love, Perfumes the axe that lays it low. --Tagore (in Untitled)

What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire, I am an answer, they are only a call. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I. --Sara Teasdale (in Untitled)

Beautiful is what we call the things we love. --Pavi Krishnan (in Untitled)

An embedded past perception is like the fly trapped in a closed mind. We have merely to open the windows of the mind to gain for ourselves the relief we need; otherwise, it will continue to buzz around and disturb the peaceful state of our mind. It is a foolish choice to suffer the torture of an imprisoned thought, when selfless love can help us secure freedom from ego-hurting perceptions that haunt us ceaselessly. --Author Unknown (in Untitled)

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little w can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. --Pico Iyer (in Peace through 'Guru Currency')

To know that you are the timeless reality is all I care to see, and this is our only meeting place. Our journey is to awaken the greatest capacity, to ignite an understanding that combines life's highest ideals with pure practicality. My work is to support and fortify a deepening of spirit, to enhance a sense of trust in one's own authority, love, acceptance, and ultimately enlightenement. This work is ever changing, you are the one that defines it. It is you that call yourself and answer yourself in me. You may wonder why you don't answer yourself directly; the answer is the same: you do. We are one. --Shantimayi (in Untitled)

now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. [...] Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheels To be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love. --Hafiz (in Untitled)

Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Untitled)

Innocence alone can be passionate. The innocent have no sorrow, no suffering, though they have had a thousand experiences. It is not the experiences that corrupt the mind but what they leave behind, the residue, the scars, the memories. These accumulate, pile one on top of the other, and then sorrow begins. This sorrow is time. Where time is, innocency is not. Passion is not born of sorrow. Sorrow is experience, the experience of everyday life, the life of agony and fleeting pleasures, fears and certainties. You cannot escape from experiences, but they need not take root in the soil of the mind. These roots give rise to problems, conflicts and constant struggle. There is no way out of this but to die each day to every yesterday. The clear mind alone can be passionate. Without passion you cannot see the breeze among the leaves or the sunlight on the water. Without passion, there is no love. --J. Krishnamurti (in Untitled)

I met people who couldn't see, some couldn't talk. But unlike others, I never struggled to communicate ... I knew the language of love. --Anita Iyer (in Untitled)

If you love people enough, they will respond lovingly. If I offend people, I blame myself, for I know that if my conduct had been correct, they would not have been offended even though they did not agree with me. Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. --Peace Pilgrim (in Untitled)

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. --Mother Teresa (in Engineers in Sri Lanka)