When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltWhat we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald ReaganGod knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Billy GrahamRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam ChomskyGenerosity 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.
Khalil GibranThe 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 GrahamGod’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Desmond TutuThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiOur teachers deserve better feedback.
Bill GatesAt the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy CarterThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMy 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 BunnyIt is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiYou can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesThe rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.
Angelina JolieI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamReal living is living for others.
Bruce LeeLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai LamaThink occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert SchweitzerWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
Pope FrancisAlthough the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas SowellThere never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostCharity 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.
BuddhaA true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.
LeBron JamesI 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 GagaThe answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
Jordan PetersonIf you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Jesus ChristVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusI was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma BombeckOur veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.
Michelle ObamaIf you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaArchbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MenckenIt’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice WalkerHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeSo long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack ObamaCourage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy GrahamOften we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert HubbardIf you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya AngelouI don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
Joel OsteenThe Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFriendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonDo not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard ShawBeing 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.
Mother TeresaOur prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai LamaI heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?
Taylor SwiftTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy GrahamWhen you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.
Kevin GatesNow that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
EminemMy mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
Dolly PartonI 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.
Dalai LamaA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.
Lady GagaWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James MadisonYour teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.
LeBron JamesOne of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas SowellMy mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle Obama