W. H. Auden Quotes

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

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

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

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

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.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

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

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

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.

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.