She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.
The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
Respect all. Fear none.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
. . . we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.