
“Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”
A New Slant on Life (1998).
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“We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.”
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait.
Aphorism 40
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

"Secret O' Life"
Song lyrics, JT (1977)
“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden