A wise man from India said, “Just as a mother protects, raises, and pampers her only child, in the same way you should encourage and protect in yourself the most precious of your possessions, your ability to love others.”
When we love others, and when we are loved, we feel good. This demonstrates that our true goodness is revealed only in love.
If you understand that love is the most important thing in the world, then when you meet someone, you should care not about their usefulness to you but how you can help them. If you do this, you accomplish a lot more than when you think only of yourself.
Why do I believe in the law of love and follow it? What will come of it? I don’t know. But I do know that the more I follow the law, the better it is for me and others.
Leo Tolstoy, Wise Thoughts for Every Day