Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

If we show people that fear isn't actually the place that we have to surrender to, fear isn't actually the thing that we have to answer to, but instead, it's going in and loving people.

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

You can't go wrong with love.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Fear is real, but so is love.

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.