- “when you can’t find a reason to live, think of others who are hurting that needs your warm and gentle care” ― Manuel Corazzari
- “Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
- “If ever there was a dwelling worthy of the Creator, it would be… in a truly Thankful heart.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “You can’t learn to swim unless you’re willing to risk drowning. Keeping your distance from the water might keep you safe for a while, but it also keeps you far way from the things that are really worth it.” ― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
- Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it’s akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. Josh Radnor
- “The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.” ― Swami Vivekananda
- “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.” ― Lao-Tzu
- We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
- “God is not a ‘He’, yet ‘he’ is a part of God. ‘God is’, any word that follows ‘God is’ is mostly error, and for that matter, every word that follows ‘God is’ is partially correct, since every word is a way of partially describing the Whole. But no one word could ever do that, or even ALL the words could never describe God. If ALL the words could never describe the experience of tasting salt, which they can’t, then it is folly to think that words could ever be an accurate description of the Creator of salt. The only way to know salt is to experience it personally, and that experience will be one of a kind, it will be yours. Creation can’t be put in a box, no matter how big we try to make that box, it will always be too small.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.” ― Debasish Mridha
- We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. Frederick William Robertson
- Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. Roy T. Bennett
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich
- We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
- “Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional. It is our heart connections that make all the difference. When we experience mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual pain – love is the one medicine that transcends any synthetic or organic drug we use to suppress pain.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “We all are born animals, it’s only with our acts of humanity can we become truly human.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
- “Leave a trail of light behind youEverywhere you go. Whose darkness you’ll illuminateYou may never know.” ― L.R. Knost
- “We need to spread more seeds and fill this Planet with love to be surrounded by flowers just everywhere! It starts by simply opening up our hearts and hands to one another. It’s in simple things where true Happiness may flourish.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
- “Life is too short to plant anything else but love.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society
- “Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “All roads lead home as home is where the heart is. So Love. Simply Love. For love is home to all of us.” ― Wald Wassermann
- “It’s not enough to simply “be”, what’s required is to “be human”.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
- “The souls of men and women make a country great.” ― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars
- Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right. Haruki Murakami
- “Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy Bennett
- “If you know people who are suffering, love them. Truly be of service. Even something as simple as a smile is loving and may be the only love or kindness gifted to them that day. Hug them, see them, love them, accept them unconditionally.” ― Tara Bianca, The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
- “I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.” ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
- “Mistakes remind me that I’m still human. Pain reminds me that I’m still alive. Trying reminds me that there’s still hope.” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “I want the first time back.I keeping chasing but its gone forever.So many times down this filthy riverThe more I chase the deeper I goWon’t be long till the pain becomes pure like melted snowThen the avalanche will bury my SoulKeep chasing till home becomes like hellKeep chasing till hell becomes home” ― Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
- “Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free