Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Thou art a votary to fond desire

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.