Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

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

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.

There's gotta be a human being in everybody, regardless of what they do or what people think they did.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

In the end only kindness matters.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.