Maryanne Wolf Quotes

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.

I want to be a good human being.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

I am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.

I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally; take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.