The world is very different now.
For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty,
and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love Without Limits.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
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Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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