Weyes Blood Quotes

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.