Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

If 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.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

If you would judge, understand.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Peace begins with a smile.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

The American people have not become heartless.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.