Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

There's no compassion like the penny.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I'm a guy with a big heart who cares about people.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.