“Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.” ThinkingSelfLove IsOpinionSelf LoveTasteDressesContraryCustomsEgotismFlattered Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.” MindMeanDoeHas BeensMatterPainHurtMemoriesLove IsPleasureKnownDyingLove YouConflictCapableBuiltContraryResistanceInnocentInnocenceIncapableRemembrancePain And PleasureBeing Hurt Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.” WayNeedsLawEvilLove IsTearsLessonsOvercomingEndureContraryReach OutWay Of Love Author:Peace Pilgrim
“Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.” WorldWayBelieveWarHelpingUseFeelingsUsedNationsLove IsUnitedCommonGroupsPrayingCitizensContraryGods WillCommon SenseUnited NationsLove MyselfWay Of Love Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words