However much we describe and explain love, When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
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Let not the fierce Sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer’s eye.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
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Love
Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
…we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
True love accepts prosperity and adversity with an equal spirit, that of joy and delight.
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II
Love depends not on outward form or face.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
The Buddha, The Dhammapada
Compassion is no attribute. It is the LAW of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of love eternal.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
Through love bitter things seem sweet, Through love bits of copper are made gold. Through love dregs taste like pure wine, Through love pains are as healing balms. Through love thorns become roses, And through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
…the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
When love comes to its fulness, then one looks at the friend with affection, on the enemy with forgiveness, on the stranger with sympathy.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one…
Seneca, Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Knowest thou not that parting goes before All meeting, and from darkness comes the light!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz