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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
Compassion is the foundation of all forms of positive change, including social change.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The only way to change the world is through acts of kindness and compassion.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Amber Tamblyn
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision.
Anonymous
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The most selfish thing you can do is to help other people.
John Wooden
Empathy is the key to understanding and connecting with others.
Angela Ahrendts
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to one another. It is the foundation of all human interaction and the key to building strong relationships.
Unknown
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
The greatest joy in life is the joy of giving.
Tony Robbins
The more you give, the more you get. The more you laugh, the less you fret.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own happiness.
Unknown
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Wayne Dyer
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama XIV
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.
Mary Davis
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the antidote to the things that mess with our heads.
George Saunders
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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