Joanne Harris Quotes

I've always had great faith in people.

I have a lot of faith in people.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

I actually really love people.

Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.