It is a man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Topic: Conflict, Love
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
