Julien Baker Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

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

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

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

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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

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.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

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

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

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