All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

Swami Vivekananda

Man's main task is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

Erich Fromm

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Swami Vivekananda

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Henri Matisse

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky