Michael Franti Quotes

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

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.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

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

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.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

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

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

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

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

People need to have compassion for others.

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

I should have been kinder when I was younger.