When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

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

It’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.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Every loss of life is terrible.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

It’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.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

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

I’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.

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.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

There 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.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

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

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

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.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

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.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.