Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainIf your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
BonoIt is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPrayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma GandhiI was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.
Abby Lee MillerI have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel JohnsonThere are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack ObamaFortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle ObamaIf you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai LamaWe pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques RousseauImmigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Thomas SowellYou have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.
Alice WalkerWe can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald ReaganLove 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.
Elbert HubbardThe reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.
Lady GagaThe real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
Thich Nhat HanhWe live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.
Joel OsteenIf you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.
Alice WalkerEthiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
BonoWe do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
EpicurusYou’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.
Joel OsteenThe best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. MaxwellI actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.
Angelina JolieWe all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
Dale CarnegieFor a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Bob DylanWe are all alike, on the inside.
Mark TwainEarly on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
Maya AngelouGood entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.
Robert KiyosakiThere are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo MachiavelliI got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.
Terry PratchettIndeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Joel OsteenThe generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan PoeI can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.
Kevin HartThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry FordNever forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleI’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.
Joel OsteenWe’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyA friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma BombeckA girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco ChanelMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegieThe more successful I become, the more I need a man.
Beyonce KnowlesWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson MandelaCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles DickensI’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.
Dolly PartonMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiFriends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van BeethovenIt’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
Maya AngelouTransforming 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 GreeneSadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
Angelina JolieYou cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
Jane GoodallPeople take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
EminemMy mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.
Mr. TWomen fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
Vivienne Westwood