Michael Schur Quotes

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Not everyone is as nice as us.

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

I never even thought about it, but I think if I had to be known for something it would be that I tried to treat everyone right and nice.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.