It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.
Unknown
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books
Robertson Davies
There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.
Sri Aurobindo
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
William Shakespeare
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
"Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
William Shakespeare
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Viktor E. Frankl
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don`t let that taint the thing you love.
Randy Milholland
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell