"After meeting with Paul Meekin last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an Philosopher, and I realized I wanted to go back to thinking in the same way he had I have fallen in love with teaching. You don’t meet people like Paul very day, who love what they do.”
– Peter Goldie
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love." - Amit Ray in the book Om Chanting and Meditation.
– Amit Ray
"Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.”
– Yassine Aumerally
"There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others. Meditation especially loving kindness meditation increases the positive empathy." - Amit Ray, from the book Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle
'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
– Bertrand Russell
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.
– Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
– John Sheffield
'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it.
– William R. Mattox, Jr.
...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me.
– Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
– Han Suyin
...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
– Alexandre Dumas
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
– John Holt
...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
<3 Faithful Love is Everlasting Love <3 a heart that cheats only knows deceit <3
– Unforgettable Glaucia
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
– Thomas Merton
A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.
– Helen Thomson
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
– Mahatma Gandhi
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
– Josh Billings
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
– Gray Davis
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
– Buddha
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
– Doris Wild Helmering
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
– Alice Childress
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
– Kim Hubbard
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
– Pearl Buck
