Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Where there is love there is life.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.
When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.
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