The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.

The fact is that love is of two kinds one which commands and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Love is all we have the only way that each can help the other.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you so you must love one another.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Let us always meet each other with smile for the smile is the beginning of love.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable trusted element in another person's life.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves and if you're not comfortable within yourself you can't be comfortable with others.

I remember a specific moment watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line and her saying to me 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.