Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Source: Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart…If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Source: Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963). Complete Quote: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. …The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting Read More…

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963). Complete Quote: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. …The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting Read More…

Haters only hate the people they can’t be and the things they can’t have.

If you project all source of hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest.

Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Râja Yoga, Being Lectures by the Swami Vivekanandab(1893)