Evelyn Underhill Quotes

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.

My biggest piece of advice is to treat your family members the same way you would treat your spouse or your partner: Be a little more delicate, a little more careful with how you say things, because there's an emotional component to that relationship.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Everyone loves to be loved.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I think half or almost all of the pain in the world … is people not feeling seen. It’s like Mr. Rogers, my hero, says: “Love is the root of everything … love or the lack of it.”

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Typically, we get annoyed when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what would make him or her feel loved.

People can talk about how much they care about you, but the small things like this, people taking time out of their day to come and support, it's amazing.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I'm not mean.

I don't want to hurt anybody.

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Everybody deserves to be loved.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.