Ani DiFranco Quotes

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Be kind to the living.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.