Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

Even though you're irritated or disappointed about a game, never lose your human side.

I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Other species help children develop empathy.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.