And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Whoso shall offer Me in faith and love A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water poured forth, That offering I accept, lovingly made With pious will.
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
There will come with the greater love of science greater love to one another.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
…mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.
Teresa of Ávila, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
It is not the receiver that is blessed, but the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga
Even in ordinary life the unselfish people are the happiest—those who work to make others happy, and who forget themselves.
Annie Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture
Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The lover's ailment is different from all ailments ;
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Blessed is the man who bears with his neighbor according to the frailty of his nature as much as he would wish to be borne with by him if he should be in a like case.
Francis of Assisi, The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, and Other Tales
Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry.
Francis of Assisi, The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
…man is here for the sake of other men — above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
Of all felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities.
Seneca, Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
The true lover of God keeps his love silently hidden in his heart, like a seed sown in the ground, and if the seedling grows, it grows in his actions towards his fellowman.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
…don’t try to pull some other fellow off the ladder—there’s room enough for both of you—be kind, be kind.
William Walker Atkinson, Nuggets of the New Thought
If thou really lovest thyself, thou lovest all men as thyself; as long as thou lovest any one less than thyself, thou dost not really love thyself.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons