Benevolence Quote by Walter Scott

Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new…

— Ravi Zacharias

When we allow ourselves to exist truly and fully, we sting the world with our vision and challenge it with our own ways of…

— Thomas Moore

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and…

— Bill Mollison

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

— Adam Smith

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence…

— John Quincy Adams

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from…

— Maimonides

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

— Dhanush

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

— Andrew Marvell

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong…

— Debbie Ford