All the children who are held and loved will know how to love others...Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done. --Ming Li (in The Work Of Half The Sky)

Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself. --James Autry (in Leprosy And A Mother's Love)

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (in Harvard Professor Resolves Ethiopian Crisis)

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. --Mother Teresa (in A Clinic for the Little Things that Matter Most)

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. --Sharon Salzberg (in Eighty Year Study On Happiness & Giving)

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity. When your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. --Stephen Levine (in Argentina Shoe Drop)

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. --Mary Ann Radmacher (in A Great-Grandfather Starts School)

That's all nonviolence is - organized love. --Joan Baez (in A Father Teaches Non-Violence)

In fact, taking tamales to the church potluck or reading in the classroom - all those little acts are philanthropic. Philanthropy means love of humankind. --Santamaría (in Immigrant Gardeners Become Philanthropists)

Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky. --Hafiz (in India's Humble Rickshaw Goes Solar)

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. --Rossiter Worthington Raymond (in A 9 Year-Old Writes of Loss)

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. Its very taking is giving. --Mikhail Naimy (in The Giver's Gains in Giving Gifts)

Dogs give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. --Gilda Radner (in The Healing Power of Dogs)

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. -- Emily Hilburn Sell (in My Hour on the Streets of New York)

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. --Henri-Frederic Amiel (in For the Homeless From the Heart)

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life. --Greg Anderson (in Relying on Kindness & A Donkey)

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way. --Rabindranath Tagore (in Slow Medicine)

The first duty of love is to listen. --Paul Tillich (in Listening to People)

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. --Barbara De Angelis (in A Homeless Man's Gift)

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. --Greg Anderson (in First Woman To Walk Lost Arrow)

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. --Jareb Teague (in A Son's Promise to his Mother)

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. --Mother Teresa (in Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?)

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. --Barbara DeAngelis (in Selling 1 House to Serve 30 Villages)

I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people. There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction. --Abdul Ghaffar (Badshah) Khan (in The Non-violent Soldier of Islam)

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. --Leo Buscaglia (in Finding A Lifeline & A Friend)

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 Measuring Stick For Managers)

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?" --Simone Weil (in Polishing Up The Diamond)

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ... And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (in Dr. King's Definition of Service)

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. --Aldo Leopald (in Life (Mostly) Off the Grid)

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest. --Henry Van Dyke (in Sand Castles in South Africa)

Receive the children in reverence; educate them in love; let them go forth in freedom. --Rudolf Steiner (in A Full-Time Job Paying-It-Forward)

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. --Henry Van Dyke (in Come Out And Play!)

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. --Denis Waitely (in What About Me?)

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. --Rumi (in A Whole New Mind)

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. --Ben Okri (in Guardian Angel of Yangtse Bridge)

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. --Mother Teresa (in Neighbor, Can You Spare A Plum?)

That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth (in How To Do A Million Good Deeds)

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. --Alfred A. Montapert (in The Perceptiveness of Dogs)

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. --Martin Luther King, Jr (in An 8-Year-Old's Compassion)

Abundance comes not from stuff. In fact, stuff is an indication of non-abundance. Abundance is in the sacred; it's in the connection of love. We will find abundance through hard times when we find each other. --Rebecca Adamson (in Age Old Wisdom for the New Economy)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (in Luminous Comic Book Tells Mandela's Story)

The quality and fullness of our lives is not measured in length, but in the love and examples we leave those we have left behind. --Cindy Crawford, about her brother who died at age 4 (in Sylvia's Center: A Living Memorial)

Where there is great love there are always miracles. --Willa Cather (in Homeless Man Writes Symphony With No Musical Training)

Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else. --St. Therese (in Contagious Love Experiment)

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. --Dean Koontz (in Wired To Care)

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. --Pierre Tielhard de Chardin (in A Gym Powered By Sweat)

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. --Denis Waitley (in Designing Cities for Happiness?)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. --Lao Tsu (in Monks Bolster Earthquake Relief)

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. --Mother Theresa (in A Mother's Love)

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth (in The Little Things)