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)

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love --Mother Teresa (in Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World)

Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why. --Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (in Love Leads Into Mystery: Raising A Child With Asperger's)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. --Henry Van Dyke (in Is Time Really Money?)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Solving Gen Y's Passion Problem)

Love is something that if you give it away, give it away, you end up having more. --Malvina Reynolds (in The Action of Light)

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. --Paulo Cohelo (in Rick Van Beek's 12-Year-Old Inspiration)

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering. --Padre Pio (in Calf Trapped In Mud Rescued)

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. --Lew Wallace (in My Daughter's Noble Sacrifice)

The word philanthropy has its roots in the Greek language meaning "love for mankind." It was never meant to apply only to donors of thousands or millions of dollars. --Arthur C. Frantzreb (in What Motivates Philanthropists?)

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in The Millionaire Janitor)

A grandma's heart is a patchwork of love. --Anonymous (in Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon)

A grandma's heart is a patchwork of love. --Anonymous (in Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon)

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. --Mother Teresa (in Second Chances on Rikers Island)

I'm a little pencil in the hands of God who is scripting his love letter to the world. --Mother Teresa (in The World Needs More Love Letters)

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. --African saying (in Far From The Tree)

How do you say "thank you" for sunshine or health...for clear days or gentle rains...for happiness, joy or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live. --Thomas D. Willhite (in Gratitude, Gifting and Grandpa)

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth. --William W. Purkey (in A Pep Talk From Kid President To You)

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. --Thomas Chandler (in My Friend, My Companion: Lessons From Mia)

The first duty of love is to listen. --Paul Tillich (in The Difference Between Listening & Hearing)

We love because it's the only true adventure. --Nikki Giovanni (in The Woolen Socks Miracle)