Carson McCullers Quotes

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I love helping people.