Nikki Giovanni Quotes

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

Be kind. It feels good.

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

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

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

I love people. I was born loving people.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

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.