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COMMITMENT QUOTES

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
― Steve Hall

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
― Mario Andretti

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
― Warren Farrell

“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.”
― Neil Strauss

“Coach said. “the quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor”.”
― Sherman Alexie

“Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“All I’m saying is that you shouldn’t stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It’s a choice you remake every day.”
― Aprilynne Pike

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”
― Esther Perel

“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”
― Phil Knight

“I’ll follow you, even to death—but I won’t live with you any more.”
― Prosper Mérimée

“The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.”
― Rob Liano

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)”
― Rollo May

“If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn’t do anything to match up to your wife.”
― Colin Firth

“Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment”
― Jeremy Aldana

“The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
― Sammy Davis Jr.

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz

“No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.”
― Kamal Ravikant

“To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.”
― Steve Maraboli

“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”
― Orrin Woodward

“the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment”
― Hubert Dreyfus

“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
― Allan Bloom

“And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons’, and your sons’ sons, until the day come.”
― Susan Cooper

“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”
― Rob Liano

“success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
― Ken Poirot

“Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.”
― Widad Akrawi

“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
― Swati Kumar

“Our progress, the realization of our dreams, and the quality of our life depend directly on the level of our commitment to the process.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners”
― Elizabeth Bourgeret

“As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.”
― Charlotte M. Liebel

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Bishop Desmond Tutu

“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment – no less real but completely different. She had both.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.”
― Stephen Covey

“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in between.”
― Pat Riley

“A full lifer doesn’t commit to anyone until they’ve committed to her”
― Deanna Kizis

“Love is more than flirty feelings and fun dates. It’s about what lives underneath the surface. The commitment you keep even when life gets hard and all the fuzzy feelings fade.”
― Nicole Deese

“Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.”
― Neal Shusterman

“All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I’ve ever wanted anything, ever.”
― Angela Johnson

“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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VIRTUE QUOTES

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. ”
― Mae West

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
― Billy Joel

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
― Sigmund Freud

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith

“I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
― Joss Whedon

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

“‎It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.”
― Jim Butcher

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“… everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Wisdom ain’t a virtue I ever aspired to.”
― Moira Young

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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― George Washington

“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
― Confucius

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”
― Epictetus

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
― Milan Kundera

“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
― Aristotle

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
― Emilie Autumn

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”
― Marquis de Sade

“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.”
― Abhaidev

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”
― Ayn Rand

“Those of us who aren’t summoned by the Dark Mark consider honesty to be a virtue.”
― Christina Lauren

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”
― Deanna Raybourn

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
― Vanna Bonta

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you’ve got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
― Mark Twain

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”
― Voltaire

“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
― Akhenaton

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COMPASSION QUOTES [BLOG#12]

COMPASSION QUOTES

“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
― Amit Ray

“Have patience with people; you need people to have patience with you.”
― Germany Kent

“Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?”
― Renae A. Sauter

“Inner light shines from love and compassion and faith. It illuminates and warms a world that, for many people, can be dark and lonely and confusing.”
― Steve Goodier

“Animals have so much to teach us. The sad reality is, unfortunately, most humans destroy or kill what they do not know, understand or value. That is how we are as a species.”
― June Stoyer

“Making others happy can give us happiness.”
― Avijeet Das

“Always be a Gentleman. Do not dominate or offend anyone. We are all changing and evolving each moment of our life. Be kind and graceful in all your dealing with others.”
― Avijeet Das

“The strength of a family lies not just in blood ties, but in the shared nexus of compassion and support.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The true measure of a smart city lies not in its technological advancements, but in the love and compassion of its inhabitants.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“In a world obsessed with status, let our compassion and empathy define us.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“If you have a problem with someone’s race, sexual orientation, politics or religious beliefs, you have a problem.”
― Rob Liano

“Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion.”
― Sally Clarke

“My brethren, be compassionate; behold how much suffering there is around you.”
― Victor Hugo

“You may never know how even a little kind gesture from your end can create a massive impact on someone’s life.”
― Hiral Nagda

“A sound of distress anywhere is calling for my attention”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Kindness and compassion are powerful forces to help inspire, heal, and transform the world.”
― Germany Kent

“You may be the last thread of hope keeping someone alive.
Always be compassionate, you never know whose life depend on the choices you make.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Coffee is a companion who is compassionate to make us compulsive to chill out.”
― Srikanth Mahankali

“The most important thing that makes a strong person a moral person is his compassionate, merciful and kind behaviour towards those who are much weaker than himself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“being compassionate, you awaken the vulnerable side”
― Garry James

“Compassion is Love In Action!”
― Jeremy Riden

“In Covid Pandemic, I have learned a new language to show compassion to the pandemic citizens of lost world.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Just so you know, you can be a boss type of lady, confident, classy, and compassionate towards others all at the same time.”
― Germany Kent

“If your thought doesn’t open the gates of kindness, it isn’t going to take you anywhere.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Forgiveness doesn’t have to be when they are sorry but when you show compassion to those who don’t deserve it.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“There is only life, and each moment worth living. There is only Love, and the joy in its giving.”
― Laura Jaworski

“The links of human compassion create a beautiful unbreakable bond.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson

“You’ve got to share what you’ve got to get back what you’ve lost”
― Tim Arnold

“If we create kindness in ourselves and spread it everywhere, then I’m sure we are going to get the most valuable thing – Love”
― Sana

“Humanity’s greatest strength is it’s ability to foster group compassion.”
― Jeremy Aldana

“We are all children of the angels so create your own special avenue to help encourage love for others.”
― Cinda Swalley

“A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“Love is not just something that happens. Love is what one decides to offer to someone.”
― Abhaidev

“There are those who believe that showing off is the coolest thing on earth and the rest of us who live a life of sharing is caring.”
― DON SANTO

“Wildlife in the world can only be protected by the love of compassionate hearts in the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Compassion is the new wealth.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“Loving-kindness always point in the direction of truthful,wise,compassionate,understanding and forgiving actions.”
― Celeste Hoeden

“I tend the growing light of compassion for all sentient beings.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“The deeper you feel the pain of others, the more human you are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you are blessed with a soul that loves every living being, whether it be human, animal or plant, then you are truly blessed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every dusk had the compassion for my fruitless traveler, to not to fail until i grab the dawn’s dewy flower! a little joy i found now is like warming my heart in that relief fire.”
― Nithin Purple

“Compassion is the driving force which will
drive the world.”
― Syed Sharukh

“All that is good, we are. Love and compassion radiate from our very being; we need only remember.”
― Laura Jaworski

“I believe that if you want to be surrounded by kindness, then you get to express it yourself towards yourself and others.”
― Zane Baker

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KINDNESS QUOTES [BLOG#11]

KINDNESS QUOTES

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao-Tzu

“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett

“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
― Mary Schmich

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Wendy Mass

“…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’t
until you do understand.”
― Kim Harrison

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien,

“What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
― Brad Meltzer

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge

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ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES [BLOG#10]

ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T Bennett

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
― William Faulkner

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The roughest roads often lead to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera

“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan

“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
― Mark Haddon

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Stanley Wolpert

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody’s going to shove you anymore because they’ll see it’s not worth it.”
― Morgan Rhodes

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
― Napoleon Hill

“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Nothing […] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
― W. Clement Stone

“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
― Kevin Michel

“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
― Colin Powell

“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins

“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity’s a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins

“But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.”
― Elizabeth Wein

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan

“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.”
― Kevin Michel

“As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.”
― Joseph Conrad

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DECISION QUOTES [BLOG#7]

DECISION QUOTES

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
― Terry Goodkind

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― Erika Johansen

“you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.”
― Ilona Andrews

“Even if we all want you here, you don’t belong until you decide you do.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”
― Cassandra Clare,

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
― Horace Walpole

“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”
― Phillip C. McGraw

“We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.”
― F.W. Boreham

“Are we friends? or are we foes? … That kind of thing… You decide… For yourselves!!!”
― Eiichiro Oda

“I’ve made a decision and now I must face the consequences.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”
― Deepak Chopra

“With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.”
― Damon Thueson

“You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Seize what’s been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.”
― James Patterson

“Don’t beg a man to keep you. If he isn’t sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.”
― Paula Heller Garland

1. “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.” — Napoleon Hill

2. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

3. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.” — Jim Rohn

4. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”- Maimonides

5. “A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.” – Dorothea Brande

6. “Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer

7. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

10. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki

12. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”- Jim Rohn

13. “When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder.” – William Joseph Slim

14. “Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you all find your treasure.”- Paulo Coelho

15. “We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.” – Thomas Merton

16. “Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.” – Sakyong Mipham

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”- Anthony Robbins

“Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God’s spirit.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else’s voice.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy … or one step further away.”
― Shay Olivarria

“The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.”
― Pearl Zhu

“There’s no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.”
― S.A. Tawks

“People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Sometimes, the best decision is making a decision.”
― Frank Sonnenberg

Thanks for reading.

MINDSET QUOTES [BLOG#6]

MINDSET QUOTES

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Amit Ray,

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
― Steve Maraboli,

“There is nothing either ‘ good or bad ‘ but ‘ thinking ‘ makes it so. It is the “perception” that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie – (“Is that all there is ?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
― Steve Maraboli,

“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release by ring-fencing a mental space to reflect on their mindset and to recover their true self. (“Did not expect it would ever happen there” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― David Foster Wallace,

“As we might be overwhelmed by the dictate of a mindset at odds with reality, and cannot get a grip on our unconsciousness, rather than curling up in the hive of uncomfortable expectations, let us cry out and unshackle our free will. (“Transcendental journey”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
― Amit Ray,

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
― Lalah Delia

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. –Winston Churchill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. –Brian Tracy

Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. – John Wooden

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy

The best way to predict your future is to create it. –Abraham Lincoln

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. –Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be. –Carol Dweck

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not at all. –Brian Tracy

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way. –Carol Dweck

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. –Steve Jobs

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. –Oprah Winfrey

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. –Carol Dweck

“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― Vera Nazarian

“There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.”
― Susan C. Young

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
― Onyi Anyado

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. –Christian D. Larson

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. –Carol Dweck

Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. –Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. –Norman Vincent Peale

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. –A.A. Milne

“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
― Germany Kent

“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”
― Victor Hugo

“Quitting is never an option on the road to success. Find the way forward. If you have a positive mindset and are willing to persevere, there is little that is beyond your reach. The attitude of being ready to work even in the face of challenges and despite odds is what will make all the difference in your life.”
― Roopleen

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. –Benjamin Spock

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. –Dale Carnegie

First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. –Barack Obama

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. –Mahatma Gandhi

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HUMANITY QUOTES [BLOG #4]

HUMANITY QUOTES

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
— Mother Teresa
“Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”
— Maya Angelou

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”
— Jimmy Carter

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
— Thurgood Marshall

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
— bell hooks

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.”
— Kofi Annan

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
— Hank Green

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
— Albert Einstein

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
— Gloria Steinem

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
— Leo Tolstoy

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.”
— Maya Angelou

“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”
— Billy Joel

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
— Marie Curie

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”
— Voltaire

“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.”
— E. O. Wilson

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
— Woodrow Wilson

“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”
— Joseph Campbell

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
— Immanuel Kant

“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
― C. JoyBell C

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“If you can’t draw close to the other and feel their humanity, then there won’t be any movement toward justice.”
— Ken Wytsma

“Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.” — Hildegard of Bingen

“There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.” — Isaac Asimov

“Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.” — Maria Montessori

“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.” — Terry Pratchett

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.” — Milan Kundera

“The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.” — Ronald Reagan

“To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.” — Abdu’l-Bahá

“The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.” — Vandana Shiva

“Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.” — Elie Wiesel

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.” — Rudyard Kipling

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” — Leo Tolstoy

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BENEVOLENCE QUOTES [BLOG#3]

BENEVOLENCE QUOTES

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
― Brian Tracy

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
― Germany Kent

“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”
― Confucius, The Analects

The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on men’s conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems. –CECILIA GRANT

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility. –EPICURUS

“One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
― Karl Pearson

As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works. –ROBERT DODSLEY

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it. –HOSEA BALLOU

The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. –ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. –MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

We rise by raising others–and he who stoops above the fallen, stands erect. – ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors. –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Learn from the Sun; on account of its warmth it doesn’t need to beg anyone to esteem it”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. –MANDELL CREIGHTON

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. –STEPHEN GRELLET

Wherever the tree of benevolence takes root, it sends forth branches above the sky. –SAADI

But deep this truth impress’d my mind–
Thro’ all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God. –ROBERT BURNS

Benevolence is a world of itself — a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. –HORACE MANN

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow-men. –CICERO

Benevolent people are very apt to be one-sided and fussy, and not of the sweetest temper if others will not be good and happy in their way. –ARTHUR HELPS

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles. –WASHINGTON IRVING

Benevolence is love to all men. It is to know all men. –CONFUCIUS

At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. In each of these stages a standard is formed, different from that of the preceding stage, but in each case the same tendency is recognised as virtue. –W.E.H. LECKY

Vengeful benevolence is what I promised you
A dark and everlasting love. –THE METEORS

No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the dispenser of all the riches in the universe. –ORVILLE DEWEY

Often have I heard it said, what good thing you do, do not defer it. –ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. –C. S. LEWIS

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. –MARIA EDGEWORTH

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. –WALTER BAGEHOT

Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful. –RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevolence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice. –ELIZABETH HAMILTON

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none so distinguished and pre-eminent in degree as benevolence. –ROBERT PEDDER BUDDICOM

We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality. –OSHO

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people’s looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. –RUFFINI

Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain. –ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. –RICHARD ALDINGTON

To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. –ADAM SMITH

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good. –WILLIAM NEVINS

Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. As embodied in man’s conduct, it is called the path of duty. –MENCIUS

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EMPATHY QUOTES [BLOG #2]

EMPATHY QUOTES

One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. – Bruce Perry
This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter – we have to progress toward this culture of encounter – in which heart speaks to heart. – Pope Francis

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Roger
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another. – Dada Vaswani

If you find yourself saying ‘But I’m just being honest’, chances are you’ve just been unkind. Honesty doesn’t heal. Empathy does. – Dan Waldschmidt
All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves. – Criss Jami

If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others. – Anonymous

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. – Jonathan Franzen

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. – Maya Soetoro-Ng
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. – Dan Pearce
Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. – Kristi Bowman

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. – Meryl Streep
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms. – Sterling K. Brown

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside. – Jim Palmer
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. – Frederick Buechner

Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. – Stephen Bachelor

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. – Karen Armstrong
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. – Traci Lea Larussa

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. – Louis C.K.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is one of humankind’s prized possessions. Acts of consideration and kindness are inevitable when a person can mentally step into someone else’s shoes. Even if it’s just for a moment. – Izey Victoria Odiaze

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