Lao Tzu Quotes

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I still won't regret it because it's helped me to live a better life, to be a better person, to care about people, to believe in forgiveness, to believe in hope.

I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping inner city kids. I've run offender services with teachings of responsibility, empathy and understanding of the victims at their heart. I've seen people change.

I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative power of their decision to treat me like a human being, that was so huge, that anytime somebody wants me to talk about that I feel like I absolutely want to do that.

You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.

I believe there's good in everybody.