Tara Stiles Quotes

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

It's important to really listen to the other person and have them feel like they're heard, to make sure the relationship feels equal.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

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.

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other.

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.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Should our party by led by someone who boasts of a hard heart?

You just always do what will make the other fellow feel comfortable, at ease, and then everything else will be all right.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.