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)

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty; still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues: be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy God's and truth's. --Shakespeare (in Thus Spake Shakespeare)

Share with others the fullness of spirit that flows from your religious life. Give of yourself: give time, not just money; give directly, not just impersonally; above all, give love. --Arthur Green (in Journey is the Destination)

I love being alive. I really do. And I think the way the world is going to transform is by us getting back in touch with the joy of being alive for its own sake. --Matt Sanford (in Helping Others Come Alive)

That's all nonviolence is: organized love. --Joan Baez (in Peace Bombs)

You are what you love, not what loves you. --Adaptation (in What You Love)

The flute of the infinite is ceaselessly playing and its sound is love. --Kabir (in World's Oldest Musical Instrument)

I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. --Ranier Maria Rilke (in Living the Question)

Work is love made visible. --Kahlil Gibran (in Love blooms in NYC cab)

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. --Albert Schweitzer (in Growing Happy)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. --Lao-Tzu (in From the Heart)

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. --Oscar Wilde (in Untitled)

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. --Friedrich Nietzsche (in Marriage)

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. --Francoise de Motteville (in Wonder Welders)

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. --Soka Gakkai (in Seeing No Limits)

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream speech” is famous because it put forward an inspiring, positive vision that carried a critique of the current moment within it. Imagine how history would have turned out had King given an “I have a nightmare” speech instead. The world’s most effective leaders distinguish themselves by inspiring hope against fear, love against injustice, and power against powerlessness. --Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (in New Apollo Project)

Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "Hurry, you will be dead before-" (What? Before your reach the morning? or the end of the poem? Or love safe in the walled city?) Now to stand still, to be here, Feel my own weight and density!... Now there is time and Time is young. O, in this single hour I live All of myself and do not move I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still, and stop the Sun! --May Sarton (in Now I Become Myself)

Love too, is a furnace And ego its fuel. --Rumi (in Love & Ego)

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Support Economy)

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. --Mother Teresa (in E-Aid)