Love is like a flower Always blooming... Always growing Always showing its beauty Wishing you bouquets of love... --Molly Silliphant, age 15, Special Olympics skier (in Untitled)

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. --William Gladstone (in Untitled)

Love is a living thing, hate is a living thing. If you do not nourish your love, it will die. If you cut the source of nutriment for your violence, your violence will also die. -- Thich Naht Hanh (in Untitled)

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. --Gandhi's Prayer For Peace (in Untitled)

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. --Carl Jung (in Untitled)

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. --Mother Teresa (in 500 Years of Peace)

There is no way to peace, Peace is the Way. There is no way to happiness, Happiness is the Way. There is no way to love, Love is the Way. --Dan Millman (in Untitled)

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. --Kahlil Gibran (in Work is Love Made Visible)

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of every one there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep where there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form 'Who am I?' is the prinicpal means. --Ramana Maharishi (in Deep Sleep)

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth. --Sutta Nipata (in A Limitless Love)

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. --Mother Theresa (in Service Vacation)

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is discord, union; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. --The Prayer of St Francis (in The Prayer of St Francis)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. --Jimi Hendrix (in Smiling Not Allowed)

Out of love, No regrets- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets- Though the return Be never. --Langston Hughes (in No Regrets)

May our lives be ever intertwined, our love keeping us together. We will build a home that is compassionate to all, full of respect and honor for others and each other. May our home be forever filled with peace, happiness and love. --Author Unknown (in Made With Love Café)

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. ... The real preparation for education is the study of one's self. --Maria Montessori (in 100 Years of Montessori)

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in The World's Biggest Concert Ever)

Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any moment, become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? --Dorothy Day (in A Common Word Between Us & You)

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also -- if you love them enough. --George Washington Carver (in Organic Inventiveness)

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo F. Buscaglia (in The Art of Holding Babies)

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. --Oscar Wilde (in Sustainable Extravagance: The World as Cherry Tree)

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. --Dorothy Day (in The Biggest Neighborhood News Blog)

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. --Susan Polis Schutz (in The Artist Who Paints Disappearing Rain Forests)

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Another King At Gandhi's Memorial)

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. --Deepak Chopra (in Caring For Other People's Children)

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. --Mother Teresa (in A Beloved Ritual By Ironworkers in Boston)

Patience is a kind of love. A love that is its own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkledparchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach. Too full to find place for offence. --Pavithra Mehta (in Five Practices for Cultivating Patience)

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy. --Robert Louis Stevenson (in Less Give More)

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. --Julio Olalla (in A Love Affair With Questions)

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth ... This is the real message of love. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in A Roaming Refuge for 1200 Animals)

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will be worthwhile. --Deepak Chopra (in Attitude of Gratitude)

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. --Dorothy Day (in How Gift-Giving Creates Community)

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. --Mother Teresa (in Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa)

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. --St. Teresa of Avila (in Mr. Wright's Law of Love)

Love what you do and do what you love. --Ray Bradbury (in The Nature of Ambition)

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human
heart then it's opposite. --Nelson Mandela (in Remembering Madiba: Timeless Wisdom from Nelson Mandela)

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. --George Bernard Shaw (in Green Bridge Growers: Finding Hope in the Ground)

The love we give away is the only love we keep. --Elbert Hubbard (in A Christmas Wish From Beyond The Grave)

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. --Paulo Coelho (in A Story of Grace & Grit)

I don't even think about whether I love music or not because my connection to music is deeper than love. --David France (in Music For Social Change)

No one is born hating another person...People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. --Nelson Mandela (in Eight Keys To End Bullying)

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. --Gary Zukav (in Dr. Bob's Clinic of Compassion)

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. --Mother Teresa (in Stitches of Hope)

Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can. Imagine immensities. --Debbie Millman (in Fixed vs Growth: Two Mindsets that Shape Our Lives)

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. --Shanon L. Alder (in The 80-Year-Old Who Runs the World's Coolest Train...for Dogs)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace --Mahatma Gandhi (in How to Avoid Abusing Power)

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. --Bryant McGill (in Forgiving My Brother's Killer)

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. --Mother Teresa (in She Lost A Daughter. Today She Shelters 800 Girls)

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Addressing Social Justice with Compassion)

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. --Meister Eckhart (in Suiseki: The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation)