Lauren Oliver Quotes

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Everything would have been all right if Hitler hadn't lied to me.

One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.

When my wife's sister passed away, Bernie Madoff came to the funeral. That was the type of individual that we all thought he was - a very caring individual.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

In the end only kindness matters.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Kindness is the essence of greatness.

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

He told me he wouldn't hurt... Charlie. He lied to me.