There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

No human creature can give orders to love.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.