Helping People Quotes
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.
Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.
With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.