Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me

The only thing I did was this: in long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.

I do not ask how the wounded person feels. I myself become the wounded.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Love brings much happiness, much more than pining brings pain.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings. My love for justice and the striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.