Brian Celio Quotes

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

If someone does something that makes me mad, well, chances are it'll probably make other people mad if I do it, too. I like to think, 'What's the meanest thing, the rudest thing I can say right now?' Or how can I completely discredit someone? That's just my mentality.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I hate nobody.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.