A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man

{Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank}His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the roses was austerely simple; he...

Love is only an expression of feelings from heart. If the world is starved for love, then it only entails the need to cultivate and develop feelings in the heart of people.

Theosophists for instance will preach an obviously attractive idea like re-incarnation; but if we wait for its logical results, they are spiritual superciliousness and the cruelty of caste. For if a man is a beggar...

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God...

{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of , just after the news of death}We were inexpressibly shocked to hear of the sudden death of your dear husband and our best loved friend. Most tenderly...

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls – to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among...

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Thus posed, the problem of unbrotherliness can oppose socialism, which uses and abuses the word bortherhood while rejecting fatherhood. Socialism has no opponent. Religions, with their transcendental content, being “not of this world”, with the...

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación del cuerpo, sino circulando con una dulzura y sin embargo regresando sin fin a través de China.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal...

Love is the highest form of meditation.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother’s keeper.

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all...

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

Old ocean, the different species of fish that you nurture have not sworn brotherhood among themselves. Each species lives apart, on its own. The varying temperaments & conformations of each one satisfactorily explain what at...

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ….and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

I really don’t understand how a men’s and women’s program wouldn’t get along. It’s like brotherhood and sisterhood with us.

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to...

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brother’s murderer.

Tapi apa memang persahabatan bisa kendur karena jarak? Aku yakin inti persahabatan tentu tidak rusak, tapi jarak dan tempat tidak bisa berdusta, berpisah secara fisik bisa merenggangkan keintiman persahabatan karena tidak lagi disirami oleh pertemuan,...

Tell them I gave my life with pride. Do not punish him if he kills me. Release him back into the wild, and my spirit will ride him into the mist.

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world,...

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find...

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

In the heart’s deepest place, where the burden of ego is dropped and the mystery of soul is penetrated, a man finds the consciousness there not different in any way from what all other men...

When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath’s chest opened up sure...

We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood,

Crying doesn’t make you weak. There’s sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.

Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.

You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army.’Where are we?’ asked Gil Gil.’In France,’ responded the Angel of Death. ‘We have now...

Fear of change was a weakness

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother’s brother.

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...