Friendliness Quote by Bertrand Russell

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others,…

— David Hume

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

— Anonymous

“Kindness is not the same as niceness or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is…

— Kerry Egan

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that…

— Jane Austen

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

— Rajneesh

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

— Samuel Beckett

“Men readily listen" to Utopias, "and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when someone…

— Will Durant

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we…

— Dada Vaswani

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because…

— Bertrand Russell

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness…

— Omar Khayyam

Children are born as emphatic and compassionate beings - so you don't have to teach them generosity, it's in their nature to be friendly.

— Rutger Bregman