Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive…

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s…

— Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or…

— Alexander McCall Smith

My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit…

— Dalai Lama

“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative of their…

— Melissa A. Fitch

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we…

— Nelson Mandela

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to…

— James P Comer

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to…

— Gore Vidal

“I have…learned that one cannot demand love and respect or require that the bonds of friendship and appreciation be extended as an unearned right.…

— Richard G. Scott

“ Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion,…

— Dalai Lama

“She could turn away and say that they had nothing to do with her, or she could accept that they had somehow touched her…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for…

— Tara Leigh Cobble

“Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed…

— Jon Huntsman

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

— Dalai Lama

Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on…

— Will Tuttle