Thomas Pynchon Quotes

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

I love helping people.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.