The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be...

Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

It took until the end of her life for me to cherish each day with my mother the way I naturally did with my brother. At the end, I loved my mother simply, without request to do better in any way, or...

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you; if your kindness reaches the undeserving, take joy in your compassion.

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love...

Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those...

We are basically all one. We are one being, one consciousness, one whole. We are all connected to each other. We are all parts of the same whole. How we treat others are how we treat ourselves. If we...

Charity is the best form of prayer. Do whatever little you can to help the not so fortunate. You may donate a small portion of your income, you may take out time to teach the underprivileged children,...

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the...

Why is there such madness in our world? Why can't we stop it? Why do we hate others? Tolerance, harmony, compassion, and kindness are the beauty of life.

Today, when you pray, increase the circle of people you pray for and include even those who are unkind to you. It will make your vibrations more loving and you will be able to connect more. With every...

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all are eternally one.

If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the sores on his feet.

Do not judge. But pray for grace for all people.

Blessing others is easy when done through love

Nobody should be alone. Being alone and untouched... there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.

When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words: 'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning...

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

You always drop by, to en lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & I've forgotten how to fly.

When hiding ourselves behind religiosity becomes the order of the day, grace is left by the wayside; without being honest about our own sin, we will never show compassion toward others. If we are to...

{In the story of the Good Samaritan} everybody knows the robber is bad - - but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are...

Half a year - maybe. Something like that. Rita did not look away. Part of her job was to help people look at what was coming. Dying could be lonely. A nurse was often an easier person to talk to than...

Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he was touched by the American's desire to help him: once when a cold kept him in bed for three days, Weeks nursed him like a mother. There was...

Love is when you care for somebody, and you be willing to go out of your way and do anything for that person, and to take care of that person, and if they have problems, that you can help them out any...