Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

You have to think with the heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

We can only learn to love by loving.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

It is easy to underestimate the demands of an open heart.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

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

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

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

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.