“All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.” WorldLoveSufferingPleasureKindnessOneselfSeeking Author:Shantideva
“In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.” LoveInspirationalHappinessLove YouTaughtHealthHarmonyConstantSmileAncientOneselfChinaTaoismPeace Of MindSerenityLongevityBest FriendEastern PhilosophyBasking Author:Mantak Chia
“In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.” LoveHumansLooksHeartMomentsDesirePassionRealizingHuman BeingsSeeingWorstYouthCapacityLongingOneselfFlamesTortureYearningLackingHuman HeartUrgencyBeing LovedPluckInexperience Author:Stefan Zweig
“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.” LoveTryingSelfHateUniverseNamesAwarenessSelf LoveCallingOneselfConvictionConvincedFrustrationWarmthFormulasImpossibilityCondemnationLove Everyone Author:Shunryu Suzuki
“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.” ThinkingLoveSelfUseUsedLanguageLove IsReadySelf LoveEgoOneselfConsiderateInconsiderate Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.” LoveAbleSupportRiskEconomicOneselfDependence Author:Gloria Steinem
“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.” WorldLoveLifeGivingDeathIndividualPaintingDrinkingOneselfImprovementPainterLive LifeGood LifeIndividual LifeLive Life Happy Author:Odd Nerdrum
“There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.” LoveHumansPersonsTwoSelfForgetSecretAchievementOneselfSeekingHuman HappinessWords LoveTwo Roads Author:Theodor Reik
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.” KnowsWorldLovePersonsAgeEvilFashionComfortableDepthOneselfPartnersHeightRejectionGood And EvilHarmoniousBumpsKnowing OneselfIndividuation Author:Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” IfsKnowsWorldLoveLifeInspirationalGivingLooksWholeHandsTruthEarthLyingKnow HowLearningDoorsTeachingKeysSelf ImprovementOneselfWhole WorldEncouraging Book:You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities