Max Brod Quotes

For me, there is only love and fear.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The most important thing is never to forget to always have love in your heart.

I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

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

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.