Charlaine Harris Quotes

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

We all have the duty to do good.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

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

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

Most of us believe that we are morally bound to live as long as we can and to help our neighbors do the same.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.