Lee Atwater Quotes

I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole.

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

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.

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The love that I get outweighs the hate.

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

If someone is misrepresenting my playing career, I try to correct them. If they say something mean about me I'll let them know it hurts my feelings. But I've noticed that the best thing for me is to show love back to them and show positivity and by doing that you gain a fan.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

For everyone who hated, there are a hundred people who showed me love, and so, you know, I'm going to spend time showing them love than focusing on the negatives.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.

People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Everyone deserves compassion.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.