Rene Char Quotes

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

I'm not mean.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

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

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.