Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

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.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

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 come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

So 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.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

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.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Giving is true having.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’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?

If you would judge, understand.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Compliment three people every day.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

When you give, it comes back to you.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.