Benevolence Quote by Samuel Johnson

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it…

— Samuel Johnson

“We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option”

— Chip Beck

It's said that someone who gives to others is in need the most, who treats others kindly is often mistreated, who is always smiling…

— Michael Loud

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough…

— Joseph Addison

“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with misery, all…

— A.E. Housman

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

— Isabel Burton

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“the feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.”

— Inazo Nitobe