We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Thich Nhat HanhA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisI don’t know about other people, but I love to work.
Kevin HartThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainI’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
Vivienne WestwoodTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauI gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.
Richard M. NixonIt’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The WeekndI often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
Kamala HarrisCreativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.
Marilyn MonroeThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaIf there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
Henry FordI never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
Bill GatesNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltDon’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou HoltzTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth IIDo your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew CarnegieI can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.
AuroraWhatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
Narendra ModiI don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
Clint EastwoodNever find fault with the absent.
Alexander PopeTransforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.
Robert GreeneThe first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. WashingtonWhen you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen CoveyWe cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Richard M. NixonI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. RockefellerThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark TwainI think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy GrahamWe must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
VoltaireBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordWhen you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.
BonoSooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.
Terry PratchettIt’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.
Denzel WashingtonI would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
Warren BuffettTalk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin DisraeliI didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.
Kevin HartA man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.
Charles SpurgeonHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee WilliamsAnybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.
Abby Lee MillerWhen we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Brene Brown‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William ShakespeareIf you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai LamaSome people feel that the world owes them a living.
Clint EastwoodSo when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergThe thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
J. K. RowlingWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother TeresaPositional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
John C. MaxwellThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiWhen will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltIt’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe BidenOh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.
Abraham LincolnI’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?
Alice WalkerWe have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
Pope FrancisIf you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
Noam Chomsky‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Billy Graham