Lawrence G. Lovasik Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

We've got to be kind.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

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

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.