Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Help
It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.
Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important that I matter!
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching u...
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than on what he ought to expect from them.
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us...
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 nee...
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.
Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you...
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.
For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.