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Hope And Humanity Quotes About Compassion

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

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

The only way to change the world is through acts of kindness and compassion.
Unknown

Compassion is the key to a happy life and a better world.
Unknown

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Dalai Lama

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

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Resilience

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Brad Meltzer

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Isabel Allende

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of 'you're not alone'.
Brené Brown

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

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 most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown

Empathy is the key that unlocks the door to understanding and connection.
Unknown

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Unity

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks

We are not separate from each other, and when we realize this, it becomes natural to treat others with compassion and kindness.
Tara Brach

We are all in this together and we are going to get through it together.
Kamala Harris

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nhat Hanh

We are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya Angelou

We are only as free as we are united.
J.R.R. Tolkien

We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being honest with those insecurities and not hiding them.
Nick Jonas

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.
C. JoyBell C.

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Perseverance

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Love

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

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 the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi

Love is the only force capable of making an enemy into a friend.
Nelson Mandela

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is the answer to the problems of the world.
John Lennon

Love is the only force capable of uniting the divided peoples of the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Optimism

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is the belief that the future will be better than the present, along with the belief that you have the power to make it so.
Unknown

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Strength

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Progress

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails to always reach our destination.
Jimmy Dean

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

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Kindness

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

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

The greatest wisdom is kindness.
Author Unknown

We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

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 answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free from the past.
Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Generosity

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Community

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King

We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

The only way to change the world is to change the story.
Michael Margolis

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love, we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
Jonathan Haidt

We are not separate from the world, and we are not separate from each other. We are a part of the environment of planet earth, and we are a part of the community of human beings.
Jock Sturges

Hope And Humanity Quotes About Faith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
C.S. Lewis

Faith is the strength that enables us to step forward even when we don't see the whole staircase.
Anonymous

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
Duane Chapman

Faith is not about everything turning out okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out.
Anonymous

Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Anonymous

Faith is the foundation of all hope, and without faith, there is no hope.
Anonymous

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