Louis Sachar Quotes

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

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

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

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

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.