Simone Weil Quotes

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

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

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

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

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

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

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

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

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.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

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.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

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.