No wound is worse than counterfeited love. -Sophocles

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
-William Blake

They do not love that do not show their love.-William Shakespeare

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -George Bernard Shaw

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be. -ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away. -Arthur Miller

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. -ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom. -Albert Einstein

Sex contains all; bodies, souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, all hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, all the governments, judges, and gods. -Walt Whitman

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. -Nadine Gordimer

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
—Mohandas Gandhi

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
—Thucydides

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
—J. Krishnamurti

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
—Mark Twain

"A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an invisible orchard." -Welsh Proverb

"When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice." Swami Vivekananda

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come." --Rabindranath Tagore

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein

"When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries." ~Kabir

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." -Thomas Jefferson

"Charity begins at home and justice begins next door." -Charles Dickens

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -Abraham Lincoln

"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it." -Gloria Steinem

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." -Aristotle

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice." -Hierocles

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." -Frederick Douglass

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." -Clarence Darrow

"It is never too late to repair an injustice." -Amir Afsai

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." ~ Edmund Burke

"Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?" ~ Jesus (Luke 12:57)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. - Voltaire

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we accidentally happen to poke our eye with our finger, do we
punish the finger? No. We simply try to sooth the pain.Why do we not punish the finger? Because both part of us, both are ours. We see ourselves in both the finger and the eye. In the same way, we should be able to see ourselves, our own Self, in all beings. If we do this, we can easily forgive the mistakes of others. To be able to love and forgive others, seeing ourselves in them, seeing their faults as our own faults, that is the true spirit of religion.
-Amma

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
- W. Edwards Deming

Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
--Mahatma Gandhi

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. --Leo Tolstoy

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. -Cicero
"Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum."

"We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought."  Chinese Proverbs

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."  -Buddha

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -John F Kennedy

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.  ~William Shakespeare

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.  ~Oscar Wilde

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. -Jean Baptiste Massieu
La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.

The future of humanity depends on the choices we make. If we look back at history, we can find that all conflict originates from conflict
within the individual. And what is the real source of this inner
conflict? It is the lack of awareness of our true nature - the One
Living Power within us of which we are all a part.

Even if love has a worldly touch in the beginning, it can reach the highest peak of purity if it becomes one-pointed and selfless. -Amma

"Complete freedom from the bondage of mind and ego will create a flow of love within. People are bound by the past and the future; that is why it so difficult to find true love in the world. In order to really be able to love, both the past and the future must dissolve and disappear". – Amma

Mother Teresa
There is only one God and He is God to all;
therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God.
I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu,
a Muslim become a better Muslim,
a Catholic become a better Catholic.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

The sun shines down, and its image is reflected in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

-- Amma

There should be an ideal behind each and every act. Let all your
actions carry a message and a lesson for others.

-- Amma

Let us focus on what we can give to others and not what we can take
for ourselves. This will bring great transformation in our lives.

-- Amma

"My effort should never be to undermine another's faith, but to make him better follower of his own faith." -Mahatma Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi