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)

All major religions carry basically the same message. That is love, compassion, and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. --Dalai Lama (in Dalai Lama on Buddhism in the West)

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. --Unknown (in The 12-year-old Headmistress)

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 The Suicide Saver)

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live. --Sasha Azevedo (in A Global Teacher)

The giving of love is an education in itself. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in The Two-Rupee Miracle)

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. --Eric Fromm (in The Miracle Birth)

It is only through courage, persistence, hope and love that we can start saving lives together. --The Flood Sisters (in Three Sisters and a Miracle)

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. --Mother Teresa (in Knocking on Doors)

The ones who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most. --Dan Millman (in Trespassing Snowmen)

Let the beauty we love become the good we do. --Rumi (in Inspiring a Community of Hope)

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 Grandmother Runs a Hospital of Hope)

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart... You're gonna find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel. --Carole King (in Smiles for the Morning Commute)

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa (in Be Selfish, Be Generous)

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together. --Gregory J. P. Godek (in Mall Shoppers Get a Surprise)

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. --William Ames (in A Neighbor's Kind Act)

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. --Saint Basil (in 30 Years of Work Bears Fruit)

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. --Millard Fuller (in A Town Lines Up to Save An Unknown Man)

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --A Course in Miracles (in I Heart Strangers)

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children -- these are the only investments that never fail. --Henry David Thoreau (in Kind Kids)

Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. --William Arthur Ward (in School Superintendent Gives Up $800k)

If you judge people you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in 10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice)

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. --Ivy Baker Priest (in Recycling Soap and Saving Lives)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs (in Remembering Steve Jobs' Insights)

Empathy is the greatest thing. There's an expression I love: 'Let people live in your heart.' --Toshiro Kanamori, 4th grade teacher (in A Tokyo Teacher's Lessons in Empathy)

Life where you're always doing something you love is art. --Leo Babauta (in Toss Productivity Out)

Love all, serve all, feed all. --Neem Karoli Baba (in The Free Farm)

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. --Marge Piercy (in A 15-yr-old Dog's Gift)

Love ... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. --Kahlil Gibran (in Embrace: A Solution That's Saving Infant Lives)

We abuse the 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 Leopold (in The 9 Dwarves: A Legend of Conservation)