The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: hate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. —Maxine Hong Kingston More about this quote Tags: mind learning universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?" —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: sorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kindness is in our power, but fondness is not. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: kindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: hunger love wealth belonging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
hatred bounces. —e. e. cummings More about this quote Tags: hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him. —Thomas Edison More about this quote Tags: power character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. —Ivan Illich More about this quote Tags: war generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christianity is good news, not good advice. —Dean Inge More about this quote Tags: Christianity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. —James Russell Lowell More about this quote Tags: action sentiment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t have a lot of people to talk to. Not a lot of people are worth my time. —Julie Anne Peters in By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead More about this quote Tags: time people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. —Dick Cavett More about this quote Tags: desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: creation nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead. —Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet More about this quote Tags: future past focus Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email