Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

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

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.