Horton Foote Quotes

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

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.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.