Jeff Buckley Quotes

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.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

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.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

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.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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.

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

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

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

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

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 three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath; the deadliest poison is covetousness ;, the fiercest fire is hatred, ;, the darkest night is ignorance. The greatest gain is to give to others ;, the greatest loss is to greedily receive without gratitude ;, an invulnerable armor is patience ;, the best weapon is wisdom.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.