Clarence Darrow Quotes

My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

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.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.