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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild
Compassion is not a sentiment but is an active principle that involves recognizing the suffering of others and then actively working to alleviate it.
Phil Cousineau
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
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 fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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 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 unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
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 the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
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 attention.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the foundation of a good life.
Talmud
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Iyanla Vanzant
The more you understand yourself, the more silence there is, the healthier you are.
Maxime Lagacé
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brené Brown
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan
Authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It's a practice - a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Brené Brown
Authenticity is the courage to be yourself. It's about being honest with yourself and others about who you are, what you believe, and what you stand for - even when it's hard.
Anonymous
Authenticity is the key to unlocking the power of your soul.
Sara Wiseman
Authenticity is the highest form of self-love.
Madonna
Authenticity is the truest form of rebellion.
Mike Robbins
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.
T.S. Eliot
Humility is the surest sign of strength.
Thomas Merton
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta
Humility is the key to success; the moment you think you got it all figured out, you've lost it.
Unknown
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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 just a feeling, it's an action. It's about what you do for the person you love.
Unknown
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Unknown
Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar Lumacad
Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.
Unknown
Love is not about what we have, but about what we give.
Unknown
Love is not about how much you say 'I love you', but how much you prove that it's true.
Unknown
Love is not about finding someone to live with. It's about finding someone you can't live without.
Unknown
Love is not about who you can see spending your future with, it's about who you can't see spending your life without.
Unknown
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 seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the key to understanding and connecting with others.
Natalie Portman
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
Unknown
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
Empathy is the first step in creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim
Courage is not about being fearless, it's about being afraid and doing it anyway.
Unknown
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
James Allen
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
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
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.
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The joy that comes from within is the strongest and most lasting.
Sharon Salzberg
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
Unknown
The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Russell M. Nelson
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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