We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Thich Nhat HanhI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas JeffersonWhen we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘
Joyce MeyerThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMaleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
Angelina JolieMy husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly PartonFriendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas JeffersonI knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.
Angelina JolieBe nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond TutuFeeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del ReyWhen we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Brene BrownThe drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.
Taylor SwiftWhen God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.
Henny YoungmanMy mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron JamesI don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
David BowieWhen you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.
Kevin GatesA man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert SchweitzerThrough our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David ThoreauI had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
Jimmy CarterUnderstanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor RooseveltWhy should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?
Greta ThunbergLove and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil GibranWar should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin PowellI have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey NewtonMy mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.
Mr. TI’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
Kurt CobainThe important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe BryantWe had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
Jim CarreyI’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘
Dolly PartonWe are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan QuayleYou have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.
Alice WalkerAmerica is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
Alice WalkerIt has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.
Richard P. FeynmanMany religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Russell M. NelsonCompassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur SchopenhauerI support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.
Joe BidenIt is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. TrumanSome people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles BukowskiAge is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad AliSo when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWell look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.
Christopher HitchensWe do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch SpinozaI can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.
Kevin HartOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SocratesIf there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar WildeIf we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.
Richard P. FeynmanIt’s a very confusing era that we’re in.
Clint EastwoodWe need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.
Joel OsteenIf I inspire you, pay for it, period.
Nipsey HussleMen feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.
Oscar WildeI have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
Joe BidenThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenYou know, you can only lead them from behind.
Nelson MandelaDissents speak to a future age.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnI go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘
Mr. TIn a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
Taylor Swift