Empathy

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Lighting the Way

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Further reading: Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Kindness and Charity

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Quotes about Helping Others

Kindness Quotes

Forgiveness Quotes

Mottos to Live By

Quotes to Live By

Brotherly Love

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Pay It Forward

Brotherly Love Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Prayers for Healing

Life Purpose Quotes

Good Works Quotes

Season of Kindness

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Let this be the season of kindness and compassion.

Further reading: My thoughts on Kindness, Charity, and Religion

Your legacy to future generations

Quotes about Kindness

Quotes about Compassion

Quotes about Generosity

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Gratitude

Quotes about Forgiveness

A Small Quiet Voice

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Righteousness does not speak in the powerful voices blaring from your television. Righteousness speaks in a small quiet voice from deep within your own soul.

Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Grant That I May Radiate (prayer)

Quotes about Conscience

Quotes about Compassion

Good Samaritan

Inner Voice Quotes

Quotes about Wealth and Power (caution, not inspirational)

Service

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Further reading: Pay It Forward

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

My Personal Greatest Hero

The Secret of Happiness

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Kindness

Quotes about Compassion

Mother Teresa Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Compassion

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- jlh

Further reading: Compassion Quotes

Helping Others

Gratitude Quotes

Diversity

Compassion for Those of All Cultures

Compassion for Those of All Faiths

Helen Keller

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,
then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Further reading: How to Think Positive

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

The Secret of Happiness

Helen Keller Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Gandhi Quotes

Joseph Addison Quotes

Empathy

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

There is compassion in selfless generosity, but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.

Further reading: The Brick - a story of brotherly love

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

What is Love?

Unity (with Spirit and All Creation)

Helping Others

Kindness Quotes

Respect Quotes

As you sow, so shall you reap.

As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others,
the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Further reading: Pay It Forward

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Jimmy Yen - My Personal Greatest Hero

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Kindness, Compassion, Generosity

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- jlh

Further reading: The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Quotes about Kindness, Compassion, and Generosity

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Peace Quotes and Sayings

Unity Quotes

Uplifting Quotes

A man's good name is his best monument.

A man's good name is his best monument.
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

How do you want to be remembered? Take action now to earn that legacy.

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How to Stop Worrying

How to Build Self Esteem

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Motivational Quotes of the Day

John Wooden: You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- jlh

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The true value of your life lies in what you do for others.

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Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Zero-Based Gratitude

Be happy over the good fortune of others.

Life is magnificent - just as it comes

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You can never love without giving - Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa

The profoundly wise of all ages have found that true happiness comes only from love and from service.

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Giving liberates the soul of the giver. - Maya Angelou

Quotes about Being Happy

Quotes about Happiness

Comforting Quotes

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Sarcastic Quotes

Mottos

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Let today be a day to visualize walking in the shoes of the less fortunate.

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Vote for the kind of world you want to leave to your grandchildren.

Further reading: Say NO to Stress: 8 Easy and Powerful Ways

Meditation: What? Why? How?

How to Stop Worrying

Inspirational Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Giving liberates the soul of the giver. - Maya Angelou

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Compassion and generosity are the true measures of human worth.

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Further reading: Meddling - 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

Offering Comforting Words and Support ... Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. - St. Francis of Assisi

A great gift requires two people, the giver and the receiver. - jlh

Open Mind - Open Heart: A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect

Gifts freely given are never obligations - jlh

Robert A. Heinlein: One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Today's affirmation:
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I declare that I will thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I will CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness, and compassion toward all.

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Further reading: No one is in control of your happiness but you

I Say NO - I Say YES

CHOICE - the fourth Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. Robert Foster Bennett

Albert Camus: Life is a sum of all your choices.

Quotes and Sayings about Life Choices

Eleanor Roosevelt: Never allow a person to tell you No...

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Today's affirmation: I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.

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Further reading: Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

Inspirational Quotes by Women

Eleanor Roosevelt: It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. Eleanor Roosevelt

We are free only if we do the work of freedom

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter

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Further reading: Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Mother Teresa prayer

Jimmy Carter: We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

When did we forget? Why did we forget?

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Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Positive Attitude: How to be Positive Around Negative People

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat, Push Your Buttons, Get You Riled Up, Or Annoy You

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

Gandhi: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.