We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~ Goethe

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
~ Alexander Smith

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

All that I am I owe to everyone I have loved and everyone I have not.
~ Seren Kirkland

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.
~ Anon

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the w... read more