Jack Gleeson Quotes

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

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

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

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

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

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Humility is attentive patience.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

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

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.