Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.