H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

It's better to be kind than to be right.

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.