George Saunders Quotes

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Let our children be taught love love love.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

Patience and gentleness is power.

One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.