Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

What's important to me is people just being people.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

I actually really love people.

It's so nice to see that one's opinion of humanity is accurately gauged.

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.