Barack Obama Quotes

In the end only kindness matters.

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

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

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

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.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

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.

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.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

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

I hear from a lot of young kids. One said to me, 'You remind me of my house mother that passed away,' and another said, 'You remind me of the mother that I didn't have.'... It's beautiful that I can instill that in people.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

When I do nice things for people it just feels so natural. I have a big heart.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

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

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.