Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not read more

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll read more

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as read more

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. read more

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working read more

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that read more

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.

We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.