Andre Maurois Quotes

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

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.

Love means being kind to each other.

I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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?

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.