Etty Hillesum Quotes

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

If we don't change this world and look inside our differences inside of us, we gonna bring this world back to a hard point.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.