Jeremy Bentham Quotes

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

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

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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

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

People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.