Richard Linklater Quotes

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

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.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

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.

Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

I don't judge my characters.