Daniel Keyes Quotes

This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.