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A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature. - Albert Einstein
A man there was and they called him mad; the more he gave the more he had. - Author Unknown
All people are a single nation. - Qu-ran
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? - Lyndon B. Johnson
Be alert to give service - what counts most in life is what we do for others. - Author Unknown
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. - Psalms.
Behold, I do not give lectures or a bit of when I give of myself. - Song of Myself
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. - Walt Whitman
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. - Bernard Meltzer
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. - Thomas Fuller (1732)
Charity. But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. - Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici, II,
Contentment. There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Goethe
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. - Francis Quarles
Give help rather than advice. - Luc de Vauvenargues
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, - Mrs. Balfour
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good - John Fountain.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor, Shall have as much again, and ten times more. - John Bunyan Pilgrim\'s Progress
He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. - Hartmann Von Aue Poor Henry
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. - Samuel Johnson
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. - Albert Schweitzer
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. - William James
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. - Helen Keller.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or kindness that I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Unknown
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings...I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. - Pearl S. Buck
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth. - J. Donald Walters
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men. - Cicero Pro Ligario
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. - Sheldon Kopp.
In the practice of tolerance, one\'s enemy is the best teacher. - 14th Dalai Lama
It 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. - Mohandas K. Gandhi.
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. - Irish proverb
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahil Gibran
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will. - Ecclesiastes
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller
Life\'s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Live and let live. - Scottish proverb
Live, let live, and help live - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love thy neighbor. - Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. - William Lloyd Garrison.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. - George Eliot
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Author Unknown
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children\'s future. And we are all mortal. - John F. Kennedy.
Our true nationality is mankind. - H.G. Wells
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. - Scott Peck
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. - Charles Sumner.
The crest and crowning of all good, Life\'s final star, is Brotherhood. - Edwin Markham
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. - Thomas Merton
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. - Thomas Paine.
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind - for wisdom. - J. Donald Walters
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; None goes his way alone. - Edwin Markham
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. - Alfred Adler
There is the sky, which is all men\'s together... - Euripides
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one\'s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - John F. Kennedy
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. - Edmund Burke
Toleration is the best religion. - Victor Hugo
United we stand, divided we fall. - Aesop
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. - Voltaire
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. - Jerome K. Jerome
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacEswan.
We may have all come on different ships, but we\'re in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them. - Dr. Alsaker
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert Schuller
When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward. - Swedish proverb.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. - Author Unknown
When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated. - Ralph Nader
With everyone you meet, you will lift them up a little or tear them down a little. We should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better. - Author Unknown
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. - John F. Kennedy
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. - Max Lerner (The Gifts of the Magi, 1949)
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