Charles de Lint Quotes

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

I believe in so much - I believe in people. I believe in hope.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I love people. I was born loving people.

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?

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

I like people.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.