Brian Behlendorf Quotes

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I've always seen the best in people.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

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.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.

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

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.