I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.