In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return.… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards would never have dared… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In the second case the mother's love and kindness produce a good effect on her and her children, making them all happy,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“In his final months, Grant showed exceptional kindness to Terrell, furnishing him with a glowing recommendation letter for use after his death… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Then I'm a paunchy guy in a room, with a note pinned to his sleeve: "You were alone in the world," it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I speak of the power of trying, because I have fallen and struggled to stand. I speak of generosity because I battle… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards… — Robert J. Furey Copy Share Image
“Supporting her entrepreneurial goals goes beyond financial assistance—it’s about showing that you’re her partner in every sense, willing to stand by her… — Devolis Newburn Copy Share Image
If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
“I can't give you what you want right now. Yes, your kindness scares me. Yes, I'm safer on my own. Or at… — Stephen White Copy Share Image
“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Sarah couldn’t remember when she’d last seen Charlie this happy. It was as if someone had yanked the dial of the dimmer… — Tammy Cohen Copy Share Image
“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“If there is no extant God and no extant gods, no good and no evil, no right and no wrong, no meaning… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
There is a widely read book that tells us everyone is a sinner. Of course, not everyone feels guilt over the bad… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morning. 'I… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
“To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image