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Quotes About Humanity

The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.
~ E. Y. Harburg
Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we're one bar closer to humanity.
~ Prince Ea
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
~ Dalai Lama
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
~ Leo Buscaglia
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.
~ Nhat Hanh
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
~ Chris Hart
It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.
~ Duane Hanson
A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.
~ Dalai Lama
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
~ Lord Byron
I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.
~ Jenny Valentine
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
~ Albert Camus
Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.
~ Nachman of Breslov
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
~ John O'Callaghan
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.
~ Tadeusz Borowski
Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive
~ Kay Bojesen
God's first Smile was born The day humanity awoke To His Light.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.
~ Mitch Albom