“A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.”
“Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”
“The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger — so it be done for love, and not for ostentation — do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.”
“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”
“Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.”
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with joy but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple, and take alms from them who work with joy.”
“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.”
“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
“Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.”
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ”
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.”
“Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.”
“Love is a non-possessive delight in the particularity of the other.”
“Equal laws protecting equal rights...the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”
“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
“True success is when those who know you the best, love you the most.”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
“What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.”
“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”