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)

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. --Kahlil Gibran (in Gorillas of Saharan Africa)

After the verb 'to love,' the verb 'to help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. --Bertha Von Suttner (in Ike Says "Vamos" to Poverty in Mexico)

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies. --Rumi (in Energizing Elixir)

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. --Rumi (in Untitled)

For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace. --Ecclesiastes (in Untitled)

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. --Eric Hoffer (in Untitled)

I just do it. My advice is just do it and do it for free. There will be a time when you'll be paid in some way. Do it with no strings attached. Do it because you love it. --Patricia Wright (in Pavarotti Teaches for Free)

What takes place when you look at something which is actually marvellously beautiful: a statue, a poem, a lily in the pond, or a well-kept lawn? At that moment, the very majesty of a mountain makes you forget yourself. Have you ever been in that position? If you have, you have seen that then you don’t exist, only that grandeur exists. But a few seconds later or a minute later, the whole cycle begins, the confusion, the chatter. So beauty is, where you are not. It is a tragedy if you don’t see this. Truth is, where you are not. Beauty is, love is, where you are not. --J. Krishnamurti (in Untitled)

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. --Martin Luther King Jr., in Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (in Untitled)

The only slavery is service without love. --e e cummings (in The Only Slavery)

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. --Mother Teresa (in Hunger For Love)

Everyone can love everything the moment they understand what they are doing, and why. No one does anything he or she doesn't want to do. --Neale Donald Walsch (in Love Everything)

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. --Michael Bridge (in Creatives at Work)

Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given For you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now, And perhaps without knowing it You will live along, someday into the answers. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Live the Questions Now)

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable. --Robert Luis Stevenson (in First-Class Upgrade)

The way is long ~ let us go together. The way is difficult ~ let us help each other. The way is joyful ~ let us share it. The way is ours alone ~ let us go in love. The way grows before us ~ let us begin. --Zen Proverb (in The Way)

If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it. But what I’m talking about is being thrilled by it. All you have to do is say "yes." You’ll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being. --Adyashanti (in Impact on the Whole)

True peace is always possible. Yet it requires strength and practice, particularly in times of great difficulty. To some, peace and non-violence are synonymous with passivity and weakness. In truth, practicing peace and non-violence is far from passive. To practice peace, to make peace alive in us, is to actively cultivate understanding, love, and compassion, even in the face of mis-perception and conflict. Practicing peace, especially in times of war, requires courage. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in True Peace is Always Possible)

I am only a child, yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words. --Severn Cullis-Suzuki (in I am Only a Child)

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. --Mother Teresa (in Cost of War)

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in Inexhaustible Source)

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. --Robert Fulghum (in I Believe)

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! --Laurie Anderson (in Lemonade Stories)

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. --David O. McKay (in Lottery Vs. Work)

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. --Eric Hoffer (in Latitudes and Attitudes)

In its gentle whisperings, there are the faintest hints of infinite love, glimmers of a life that time forgot, flashes of a bliss that must not be mentioned, an infinite intersection where the mysteries of eternity breathe life into mortal time, where suffering and pain have forgotten how to pronounce their own names, this secret quiet intersection of time and the very timeless, an intersection called the soul. --Ken Wilber (in Share-It Square)

It's the Circle of Life And it moves us all Through despair and hope Through faith and love Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the Circle The Circle of Life. --Tim Rice (in DotComGuy)

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help. --Marianne Williamson (in Rags to Riches to Kindness)

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. --M. Scott Peck (in Speaker and Listener)

We talk about martial arts having three levels. The first level we talk about the physical: Sword on your hand is part of your body. You use like it's your arm. The second part, you don't (really) have a sword but the sword in your heart. Before the physical contact, maybe you can scare them. Maybe you can use imagination, talking. Make them afraid. Third level, the highest level, you love your enemy. In other words, mercy is courage. --Jet Li (in Art of Martial Arts)

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. --Margaret Atwood (in Fifty-Two Names For Snow)