Tracy McMillan Quotes

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I would like to be remembered as somebody who cared a great deal about people.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

Life is not all about parties and frolicking. You have to show you care for people, too.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

You have to think with the heart.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Be kind to the living.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.