Egon Schiele Quotes

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

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.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.