Maybe we can't get to where we want to get to, unless we love people who are really hard for us to love. --Larry Brilliant (in Birds and Saints Don't Collect)

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally. --Yvonne Pierre (in Looking Past Limits: The Remarkable Story of Caroline Casey)

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. --bell hooks (in Can Love Be A Force for Social Justice?)

Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger is the force that protects it. --Valerie Kaur (in Three Lessons of Revolutionary Love in a Time of Rage)

Eventually you will come to understand that
love heals everything, and love is all there is. --Gary Zukav (in One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ---Mahatma Gandhi- (in A Small Dark Light: Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching)

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -- But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. --Hilary Stanton Zunin (in A Video Game to Cope with Grief)

We need to find our way back to love, and the forgotten garden of the soul reconnects us to love--this is a part of its mystery, its magic. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (in When the Source Ran Free: A Story for Our Times)

We are born of love.
Love is our mother. --Rumi (in Alphabet Heart Sutra: A Mother's Day Offering)

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment. --Jiddu Krishnamurti (in A Higher Level of Conscious Engagement)

So, you are still alive and when you are alive, give love, unconditional love! That's enough.
--Shin Terayama (in Shin Terayama: A Radical Healing, A Remarkable Life)

The love we give away is the only love we keep. --Elbert Hubbard (in Strangers 'Scarf-Bomb' City to Give Warmth in Winter)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. --Gandhi (in With a Soft Breath: How My Daughter Rides Horses)

… if we wait for the perfect time, the perfect person, the perfected self, we’ll stay frozen in an idea of love. But if we fearlessly engage with the life spread out before us, we will be rewarded with a heart that can hold it all — happiness and messiness, clarity and confusion, love and loss. --Pema Chodron (in Iris Murdoch: How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely)

I will tell you the meaning of your life here. It is to humanize the earth. And what is it to humanize the earth? It is to surpass pain and suffering; it is to learn without limits; it is to love the reality you build. --SILO (in Untitled)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. --Henry Drummond (in Untitled)

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. --William Shakespeare (in Untitled)

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. --Mother Teresa (in Untitled)

There's a strange frenzy in my head, Of birds flying, Each particle circulating on its own. Is the one I love everywhere? --Rumi (in Untitled)

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. --Edwin Markham (in Untitled)

Dear GOD, I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it. **Nan --from "Kids' Letters To God" (in Untitled)

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. --Lao Tzu (in Untitled)

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namastè," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides, I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namastè! --Ram Dass (in Untitled)

Love is the great transformer, turning ambition into aspiration, selfishness into service, greed into gratitude, getting into giving and demands into dedication. --Anonymous (in Untitled)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Untitled)

True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist; nor can it be hidden where it truly does. --La Rouchefaucould (in Untitled)

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard. --Julia Butterfly Hill (in What Is Your Tree?)

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. --Stephen Levine (in Untitled)

We forgive to the extent that we love. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld (in A Daily Dose of Kindness)

The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is Love. --Kabir (in Untitled)

There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind. --J. Krishnamurti (in Untitled)

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. --Francois Muriac (in Untitled)

The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference. Thus, the opposite of beauty is not ugliness but indifference. The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of life is not death but indifference to life and death. --Ellie Weisel (in Untitled)

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in Untitled)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in Untitled)

Where there's love, you'll discover a way. --Quotemasters :) (in Untitled)

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above. --Julia A. Fletcher Carney (in Untitled)

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. --Dalai Lama (in Untitled)

When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not a part of you, then there is no one who exists who is not a part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of your world. --Harry Palmer (in Untitled)

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. --Ursula Le Guin (in Pictures of Beauty in Guatemalan Dumps)

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. --Gandhi (in Untitled)

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. --Stephen Levine (in Untitled)

i wish you flowers, sunshine, and smiles. i wish you children that grow to make you proud. i wish you pretty things to wear, sweet things to smell. i wish you good friends that always treat you fair. want to wish you ribbons to tie around your hair. i wish you truckloads of cheer, many happy years. want to wish you freedom to do all the things you love. want to wish you blessings and kindness from above. want to wish you sunlight through the clouds. hope you laugh out loud. i wish you well. --bill withers (in Untitled)

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. --Arundhati Roy (in Untitled)

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Untitled)

Inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive. --James Baldwin (in Untitled)

Meditation means the art of being alone. And love means the art of being with people, the art of being together. But meditation comes first. --Radkhi (in Untitled)

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method, which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in Untitled)

Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. --Rumi (in Untitled)

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