Quotes About Benevolence

My religion is kindness. THE DALAI LAMA

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases of life.

True heroes are those that go that extra mile for someone. That put their heart and soul in helping others. True heroes have a HEART OF GOLD! God bless all the heroes.

Behold the word: Destroy, destroy, destroy. Destroy within yourself; destroy what surrounds you. Make space for your soul and for all other souls. Destroy all good and all evil. Their ruins are the same. Destroy the old dwellings of man and old the dwellings of the soul; what is dead is a distorting mirror. Destroy, for all creation comes from destruction. And for higher benevolence you must annihilate lower benevolence. And thus new good appears saturated with evil.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

When we are willing to help others, God will also give us the resources to make it possible.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.