Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

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

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

We must be agents of love.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.