I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey HepburnRemember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William ShakespeareI think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya AngelouIf I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee WilliamsThe idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.
Bill GatesI can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.
AuroraMost of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie ChanAny 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Jesus ChristI see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
Alice WalkerThe blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.
Mr. TI’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.
Jordan PetersonIf you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya AngelouA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergWe have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy CarterLove has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
Katharine HepburnYou never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.
Joe BidenThere are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.
Michelle ObamaThere is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat HanhI’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
AuroraWhat nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Anthony BourdainPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleIf 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.
Henry FordNot always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander PopePeople 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.This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will RogersYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil GibranI feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady GagaI wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad AliI always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne DyerLove begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Mother TeresaThere are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George EliotBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai LamaWe herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. PattonThe highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy GrahamI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaThey might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily DickinsonVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaLove is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIn the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Anne FrankTeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander PopeThere is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Most people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleI’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.
Paul AusterA good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles SpurgeonIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily DickinsonThe funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
Paul AusterCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles DickensIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI 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.
Brene BrownAny hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
Kevin HartGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil GibranTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth IIEach one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother TeresaGenerous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
Robert KiyosakiThrough our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David ThoreauIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai LamaIt’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
Joyce Meyer