Vicki Lawrence Quotes

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.