Jean Houston Quotes

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

My first job is to entertain, but if, while you're enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as 'other' once upon a time - how awesome is that.

Love is bigger than government.

Love is stronger than justice.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Love is the substance of human survival.

I truly believe that love is greater than politics.

I love everything about the human experience.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.