The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. 641
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. 686
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. 618
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. 725
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. 1.6K
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? 656
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. 683
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” 690
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” 818
“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” 1.13K
“Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.” 718
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” 892
“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” 1.38K
“Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.” 901
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” 2.08K
