La India Quotes

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I want to go out and help people and share love where love is needed.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.