Bertrand Russell Quotes

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

True Christianity is love in action.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

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.