Virginia Woolf Quotes

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.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath; the deadliest poison is covetousness ;, the fiercest fire is hatred, ;, the darkest night is ignorance. The greatest gain is to give to others ;, the greatest loss is to greedily receive without gratitude ;, an invulnerable armor is patience ;, the best weapon is wisdom.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.