Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.

As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

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

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

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.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.