Lynsey Addario Quotes

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Work at being a humble person.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

I think if everyone had a little more Hodor in them, it'd be a nicer world.

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.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

True contentment comes with empathy.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.