Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

It is easy to underestimate the demands of an open heart.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

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

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

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

You have to think with the heart.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

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

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.