Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

How much good do you suppose condescending charity does?

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

A kindness is never wasted

Great people create great acts of kindness.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.