“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time”

“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”

“Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. ”

“Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. ”

“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ”

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

“I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.”

“True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.”

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”

“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.”

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“Let the beauty that we love be what we do.”

“Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

“The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be...Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”

“It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.”

“When you are in Love, you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.”

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ”

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ”

“The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference! ”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. ”

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

“Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves—our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.”