Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.

Arbeit ist sichtbar gemachte Liebe.

[W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [...] und nehmt Almosen von denen, die mit Freude arbeiten.

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.