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“The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity...”— Abdu'l-Baha
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“Let not your heart be offended with anyone… Beware! Beware! lest ye offend any heart.”— Abdu'l-Baha
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“Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with our future.”— Shoghi Effendi
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“The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls...”— Shoghi Effendi
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“Aim high, choose noble ends...”— Abdu'l-Baha
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“Man must live in contentment with the conditions of his time. He must not make himself the slave of any habit. He must eat a piece of stale bread with the same relish and enjoyment as the most sumptuous dinner. Contentment is real wealth. If one develops within himself the quality of contentment he will become independent. Contentment is the creator of happiness. When one is contented he does not care either for riches or poverty. He lives above the influence of them and is indifferent to them.”— Abdu'l-Baha
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“Seize thy chance, for it will come to thee no more.”— Baha'u'llah
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“Exultest thou over the treasures thou dost possess, knowing they shall perish? Rejoicest thou in that thou rulest a span of earth, when the whole world, in the estimation of the people of Bahá, is worth as much as the black in the eye of a dead ant?”— Baha'u'llah
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“Detachment does not consist in setting fire to one's house, or becoming bankrupt or throwing one's fortune out of the window, or even giving away all of one's possessions. Detachment consists in refraining from letting our possessions possess us.”— Abdu'l-Baha
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“The first sign of faith is love. The message of the holy, divine Manifestations is love; the phenomena of creation are based upon love; the radiance of the world is due to love; the well-being and happiness of the world depend upon it. Therefore, I admonish you that you must strive throughout the human world to diffuse the light of love...”— Abdu'l-Baha