"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell | Acceptance | 12 bookmarks

"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."

Traherne, Thomas | Love | 9 bookmarks

"There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place."

Mother Teresa | Jesus Christ | 3 bookmarks

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. | Love | 49 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 44 bookmarks

"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick | Men and Women | 23 bookmarks

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther | Hatred | 44 bookmarks

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus | Achievement | 1 bookmarks

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van | Achievement | 13 bookmarks

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Achievement | 18 bookmarks