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)

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Love, the Most Powerful Medicine)

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? --Jack Kornfield (in Be Healthy, Be Compassionate)

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -- but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. --Walter Anderson (in How Vulnerability Can Be a Strength)

The first duty of love is to listen. --Paul Tillich (in In Africa, the Art of Listening)

Our love is sooo big. It has room for everybody. --Cari Tuna (in A Cookie Giving Experiment in New York City)

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --Rumi (in 5 Books on the Psychology of Love)

The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in. --Morrie Schwartz (in A Dying Boy's Special Bond with a Rescue Dog)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Valentine's Day Wisdom)

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. --William Blake (in A Different Kind of Super Bowl Story)

When you don't choose love, you choose fear. --iJourney.org Editors (in Top 5 Regrets of the Dying)

When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love. --A. K. Raha (in Competing with Love)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in 3 Little Monks and a Moment of Truth)

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. --Adrienne Rich (in Five Poverty-fighting Women to Watch)

Things that I will do my best to carry on in your honor: I will order salad with french fries on the side, with a straight face. I will drink my tea with too much milk. I will carry cookies in my coat pocket for all the dogs. I will love unconditionally. --Eulogy for Shelagh Gordon, Feb 2012 (in An Ordinary Magical Life)

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house ... kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness. --Mother Teresa (in 10 Points on the Science of Spreading Good)

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. --Dean Koontz (in The Empathic Civilization)

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 How To Find Your Purpose)

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. --Eric Fromm (in Love and Play: a Conversation w/ Chaz)

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children. --Mahatma Gandhi (in Finding Nimo: A Rap Star's Journey With 16 Slum Kids)

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. --Anais Nin (in How to Stop Labels from Becoming Judgments)

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 Gleaning for the Greater Good)

May I live this day compassionate of heart, clear in word, gracious in awareness, courageous in thought, generous in love. --John O'Donohue (in Rediscovering the Lost Art of Blessing)

All works of love are works of peace. --Mother Teresa (in Peace Artist Gifts Half A Million Works of Art)

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 Rickshaw Puller Starts Clinic for the Poor)

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. --Maya Angelou (in One of the Greatest Love Stories Ever)

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you. --Cory Booker (in A Conspiracy of Love: Stanford Graduation Speech)

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown. --Marty Rubin (in How Ignorance Fuels the Evolution of Knowledge)

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people. --Cornel West (in The Power of A Grandmother's Heart)

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. --Emily Dickinson (in The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing)

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. --Anne Lamott (in Loving A Child Through Life's Challenges)

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. --Marcus Aurelius (in A Good Day In Haiti)