Charles de Lint Quotes

I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I got no hate in me.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Humility is attentive patience.

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

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.

We've got to be kind.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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?

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

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

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

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Peace begins with a smile.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.