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.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
When elephants fight, ants get killed.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
No human creature can give orders to love.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
