Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

Pity melts the mind to love.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.