Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

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

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.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

When 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.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I like to give back.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.