Philip Sidney Quotes

I do have a delicate side.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

I couldn't kill a fly.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I'm very human.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

Remember that I am a human.

I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.

I'm not the type of dude who kicks somebody when they're down.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.