Zoketsu Norman Fischer Quotes

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Your heart, my friend, is the size of a stadium. If you try to fill it with small things - a new car, a vacation, a promotion at work, a bigger home, a stock portfolio - a mournful echo will fill your life. But if you fill your stadium with all of humanity and search for ways to make their lives better each day, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!