Words of Motivation and Inspiration
Compassion
Words of compassion.
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
With kindness, with love and compassion, with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Empathy
Quotes about our interconnectedness and the feelings that we all share.
From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and wants to avoid suffering. In this we are all the same.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Inspirational
Words to inspire and motivate.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
When I`m tempted to throw up my hands in despair and surrender to the cynical idea that this is just the way it will always be, I think of the parable of a young man who was so overcome by the weight of corruption, poverty and pain in the world that he became despondent and doubtful about the power and intentions of the God he believed in.
At his place of worship he prayed, "God, how can you allow all this sin and suffering and do nothing?" Receiving no answer he became frustrated and he raised his voice, "Lord, my faith is at issue. How can you do nothing?"
A young girl behind him whispered, "Don`t despair. God has done something. He made YOU!"
Peace
Phrases to help steer us toward the path of peace.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Service
Quotes about service to others.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain.
American women's suffragist (1820-1906)
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
British statesman and political philosopher (1729-1797)
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.