A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
– Richard Whately
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
– Dan Wakefield
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
– Leo Buscaglia
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
– Booker T. Washington
If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.
– Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
– Marc Estrin
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.
– Don Marquis
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum — of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
– Henry Miller
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
– James M. Barrie
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
– Norman MacEwan
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
– Tenneva Jordan
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
– Carolyn Wells
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Wiesel