Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia WoolfI’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.
Jurgen KloppThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
Amy WinehouseI always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
BonoIf you give, you will be blessed.
Joel OsteenYou know, you can only lead them from behind.
Nelson MandelaFor a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostLoving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce MeyerA friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
King SolomonHillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu ReevesWe can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald ReaganWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsFor just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWorking with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.
Michelle ObamaGet someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will RogersA deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Brene BrownThere is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich NietzscheThe value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert EinsteinI support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.
Joe BidenBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonIf I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David ThoreauOn the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
J. K. RowlingMy mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.
Bad BunnyMy husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly PartonA 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.
Albert SchweitzerIf 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.
Alice WalkerStill round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TolkienI think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Elon MuskThe love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert HubbardIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen KellerLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother TeresaIf I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya AngelouLet us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Thich Nhat HanhThe civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles DickensI’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe BryantIt is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
EpicurusHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaYou must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhenever 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.
Wayne DyerWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen KellerDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph AddisonThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark TwainThe important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe BryantA 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 SpurgeonI do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham LincolnThe Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
Noam ChomskyI thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt CobainNo one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret ThatcherA true man hates no one.
Napoleon BonaparteWhen I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
Nelson MandelaWhen people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.
The WeekndAll that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J. R. R. TolkienTo hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe