Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

We all need each other.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

Dont hold to anger hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesnt know whats going on.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Fantastic things happen to the way we feel to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself to laugh with me but never at me to cry with me but never because of me to love life to love himself to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

When it comes to giving love the opportunities are unlimited and we are all gifted

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate communicate and know anothers heart and soul.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves hiding who we are and ask other strangers hiding who they are to love us.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.