Anthony Perkins Quotes

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

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 compassion is an important quality in people in general.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

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

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.