Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation. Michael Lerner Related Quotes: Compassion Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Earth Quotes, Ethics Quotes, Love Quotes, Michael Lerner Quotes, Money Quotes, Power Quotes, Reverence for Life Quotes If you arent good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since youll resent the time and energy you give another person that you arent even giving to yourself. Barbara De Angelis Related Quotes: Barbara De Angelis Quotes, Integrity/Individuality Quotes, Love Quotes 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 Francis of Assisi Related Quotes: Creed/Credo Quotes, Despair Quotes, Doubt/Uncertainty Quotes, Faith Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Francis of Assisi Quotes, Hatred Quotes, Hope Quotes, Joy Quotes, Love Quotes To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. James Baldwin Related Quotes: James Baldwin Quotes, Life Quotes, Love Quotes, Presence Quotes Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde Related Quotes: Advice Quotes, Life Quotes, Love Quotes, Oscar Wilde Quotes The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love. Henry Miller Related Quotes: Henry Miller Quotes, Love Quotes The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. Susan Faludi Related Quotes: Goals Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Love Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Relationships Quotes, Susan Faludi Quotes At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King, Jr. Related Quotes: Love Quotes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes, Nonviolence Quotes Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Related Quotes: Genius Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Love Quotes The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. Henry Miller Related Quotes: Enemies Quotes, Henry Miller Quotes, Love Quotes Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald Related Quotes: Compassion Quotes, Heart Quotes, Love Quotes, Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Related Quotes: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes, Meditation Quotes, Relationships Quotes, Religion Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Quotes Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mohandas K. Gandhi Related Quotes: Choice/Choosing Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Love Quotes, Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. Marc Estrin Related Quotes: Education Quotes, Fear Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Greed Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Learning Quotes, Love Quotes, Sharing Quotes, Stupidity Quotes We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr. Related Quotes: Enemies Quotes, Evil Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Good Quotes, Hatred Quotes, Love Quotes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain. Sharon Salzberg Related Quotes: Connections Quotes, Love Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sharon Salzberg Quotes, Suffering Quotes Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward Related Quotes: Criticism Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Love Quotes, William Arthur Ward Quotes Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan Related Quotes: George Jean Nathan Quotes, Love Quotes For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. Thomas Mann Related Quotes: Art Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Love Quotes, Thomas Mann Quotes All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Jean Goss Related Quotes: Ideas Quotes, Love Quotes, Nonviolence Quotes, Politics Quotes, Violence Quotes
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