We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~ Marian Anderson
Cruelty is the only sin.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
~ Anaïs Nin
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
~ A. E. Housman
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.
~ Bonaro Overstreet
In real love you want the other person's good.
~ Margaret Anderson
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.
~ Pamela Glenconner
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
~ Grenville Kleiser
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
~ Michel De Montaigne
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
~ Carter Heyward
I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.
~ Peace Pilgrim
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~ Ben Sweetland
What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.
In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
~ Flora Edwards
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
~ Holly Ketchel
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
~ Stuart Cloete
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
~ Robert J. Mccracken
Giving opens the way for receiving.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
~ Marianne Williamson
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.
~ Indigo Girls
True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
~ Brooke Astor
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
~ Lord Chesterfield
When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.
~ Sara Ruddick
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
~ George Matthew Adams
To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.
~ Gerald B. Fitzgerald
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
~ Madame De Maintenon
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
~ Boniface Viii
What we frankly give forever is our own.
~ George Granville
