The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget".
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Three passions have governed my life

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Love and kindness are never wasted

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

Love at first sight is easy to understand

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom

Can science explain first love?

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein

In love relationships there is a fine line between pleasure and pain

In love relationships there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. In fact it is a common belief that a relationship without pain is a relationship not worth having. To some pain implies growth. But how do we know when the growing pains stop and the pain pains begin? Are we masochists or optimists if we continue to walk that fine line?
-Carrie Bradshaw

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard