We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. --Richard Louv (in Leave No Child Inside)

We can do no great things -- only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa (in Rudy Corpuz: It Takes a Hood to Save the Hood)

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. --Immanuel Kant (in The Secrets to a Happy Life)

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion. --Stephen Levine (in Why These Kids Love School)

When you're doing something you love and are drawn to it, you want to do it all the time. --Ra Paulette (in The Cave Digger)

Whosoever loves much -- performs much and can accomplish much; and what is done in love is well done. --Vincent Van Gogh (in The Little Gardener: A Parable On The Power of Working with Love)

Take on big jobs worth doing -- jobs like the spread of love, peace, and justice. That means refusing to be seduced by our cultural obsession with being effective as measured by short-term results. --Parker Palmer (in Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life)

Dogs are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend our unconditional love. --Maira Kalman (in An Illustrated Love Letter to Canine Companions)

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. --Corita Kent (in Choosing Suffering Over Safety)

The best portions of a good man's life are his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth (in Three Ways To Bring More Kindness To Your Life)

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. --Mitch Albom (in The 'Magic Strings' of Mitch Albom)

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. --Charles Darwin (in India's First Shelter for Dogs with Disabilities)

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Free Tea and Company: Ten Years And Counting)

Choose one thing you love about life on this planet, and make that your thing. --Camille Seaman (in The Tipping Point )

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion --Simone De Beauvoir (in The Story of Bopsy: The Very First Make-a-Wish Kid)

When all your desires are distilled;
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy. --Hafiz (in College Happiness Clubs)

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters. --Addison Gayle (in Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Well-Intentioned People)

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. --Mother Teresa (in Forward the Smile)

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. --Maya Angelou (in India's Youngest Single Parent to Adopt a Special Needs Child)

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. --Hippocrates (in The Art of Medicine: W.H Auden & Oliver Sachs)

You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. --Eckart Tolle (in Buried Treasure: The Story of a Marriage)

One love, one heart, one destiny. --Bob Marley (in One Heart: A Mission To Save Lives in Childbirth)

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. --Morrie Schwartz (in Letting Love Come In: Lessons from a Nursing Home)

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. --Hippocrates (in The Big Idea Behind Integrative Medicine)

Words are windows, or they're walls,
They sentence us, or set us free.
When I speak and when I hear,
Let the love light shine through me. --Ruth Bebermeyer (in 10 Tips for Effective Communication)

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive. --Mother Theresa (in The Power of Forgiveness at Work)

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. --Virginia Woolfe (in The First Allergy-Friendly Food Bank)

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. --Dalai Lama (in Arlene Samen: A Global Healer for Women)

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. --Rumi (in The Sneaker Saint)

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. --James Herriot (in What We Should Know About Animals)

Love is the bridge between you and everything. --Rumi (in Can Love Stories Change the World?)

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. --Mother Teresa (in I Trust You)

Love is the most powerful energy in the world. When you have that, you're not weaker; you're actually a lot stronger. That's the narrative that's missing out there and needs to be told. --John Mackey (in Manifesting Love at Work)

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (in A Spotlight on Love)

Once I knew the depth of where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of things. Then love came and set my soul free. --Helen Keller (in A Call to Revolutionary Love)

The only thing of importance when we depart will be the traces of love we have left behind. --Albert Schweitzer (in The Newscaster Who Wouldn't Give Up On A Foster Child)

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. --Frank Lloyd Wright (in How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier)

Love is the guardian deity of everything. --Morihei Ueshiba (in Jeannie Kahwajy: Catching Everything As Help)

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. --David Levithan (in A Weaver of Kind Voices)

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. --Desmond Tutu (in Kay Pranis: The Art of Holding Circle)

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. --Kristin Armstrong (in Resilience After Unimaginable Loss)

Love is the absence of judgement. --Dalai Lama (in Sister Lucy: The Mother Teresa of Pune)

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. --Mahatma Gandhi (in Seed, Soil, Light: A Revolutionary's Journey)

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man --Charles Darwin (in Thomas Ponce: On Behalf of All Living Beings)

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa (in Spotlight on Kids Who Are Changing the World)

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love --Louise Bourgeois (in Elie Wiesel on How Our Questions Unite Us)

If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. --Rick Bass (in The Solace of Wild Places in Nature and Ourselves)

How shall we speak of love, except in the splurge of roses? --Mary Oliver (in A Feast of Flowers)

Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed. --John Tarrant (in The Myth of the Digital Gene)

Love the giver more than the gift. --Brigham Young (in Medicine Baba: When a Man Becomes a Movement)