Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Everyone deserves compassion.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify and then fight the necessary fights from the best possible mind-state: calm, loving, affectionate, precise. Not pushovers but also not zealots. With the idea in mind that "our enemies" are not our enemies; they might seem like that in their present form but that form can morph. We really are large, and really do contain multitudes. But I think it all has to start with a kindly presence of mind, and the aspiration to affection for others.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

Patience and love can do anything.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.