Nancy Farmer Quotes

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

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

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

No, I don't believe in tough love. I just believe in love.

Everyone deserves compassion.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

People need to have compassion for others.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

No matter where you're from, what you've done, who you are, what your family's done, it's like, you cannot be healthy without love.

It's hard lovin' folks sometimes, isn't it?

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.