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)

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things. --Mary Oliver (in Wild Geese)

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Lending People)

Take the time to pray – it is the sweet oil that eases the hinge into the garden so the doorway can swing open easily. You can always go there. Consider yourself blessed. These stones that break your bones will build the altar of your love. Your home is the garden. Carry its odor, hidden in you, into the city. Suddenly your enemies will buy seed packets and fall to their knees to plant flowers in the dirt by the road. They’ll call you Friend and honor your passing among them…. Give everything away except your garden, your worry, your fear, your small-mindedness. Your garden can never be taken from you. --Lynn Park (in Your Garden)

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. --Virgina Woolf (in People's Grocery)

Where there is love there is life. --Gandhi (in Untitled)

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

The day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak out, I knew then, as I had before life is no passing memory of what has been nor the remaining pages in a great book waiting to be read. It is the opening of eyes long closed. It is the vision of far off thinks seen for the silence they hold. It is in the heart after years of secret conversing speaking out loud in the clear air. It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees before the lit bush. It is the man throwing away his shoes as if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished, opened at last, fallen in love with solid ground. --David Whyte (in The Opening of Eyes)

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? --Jack Kornfield (in Near Death)

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 Bhutan)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. --Lao-Tse (in Mother Wright)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. --Jiddu Krishnamurti (in Heart of the Matter)

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind 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., December 11, 1964 (in MLK Day)

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others. --Author Unknown (in Research Links Meditation With Compassion)

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. --Bobby - age 7 (in Altruism and the Young)

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa (in Small Clicks with Great Love)

Loving means saying yes to your belonging. It isn't just an emotional thing. "Love your neighbor" means that you belong together and you say yes to that belonging. --Brother David Steindl-Rast (in Waves of Service)

We ache at the violence, pain, and hunger in our world, and inside us is a will to help. But 'help' only helps if it is an active expression of love. Otherwise our attempts to help, limited by narrow self-concern, become rigid and too easily discouraged. --John Makransky (in The Altruism of Children)

I think there comes a time when it's not enough for us just to help other people. There's something inside us that yearns to give ourselves up for the sake of other people. Sacrifice is the language of love. --Mother Antonia (in Beloved 'Hijos' of Mother Antonia)

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. --Leo Buscaglia (in Kids on Love)

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love. --Rumi (in South American Twist in Time)

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. --e.e. cummings (in The Abbot and 18 Tigers)