Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.