Quotes about Humanity

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

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

Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.