Ann Maxwell 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.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

Without love, we are not free from our own self interest.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.