Rose Namajunas Quotes

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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.

Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

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

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

You have to think with the heart.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

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

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

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

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.

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.

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