2020 has been filled to the brim with pandemic stressors, isolation, depression, financial burden, and post-election political divisions.
Perhaps this is one of the most critical times to pause and place empathy and compassion at the forefront of our minds.
With the holidays right around the corner, what better time to be reminded that simple acts of kindness matter.
Here are 15 quotes to help us get inspired:
1. “We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.” – Charlotte Lunsford
2. “The value of our lives is measured by our capacity to love others.” –Wayne Gerard Trotman
3. “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” -Buddha
4.“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” –Dalai Lama
5. “Where there is love there is life.”-Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” -Booker T. Washington
7. “To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.” -Henry Ford
8. “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” -Socrates
9. “Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift.” -Pablo
10. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?” -Brian Tracy
12. “Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.” -Mandy Hale
13. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” -Albert Einstein
14. “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…you look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
-Steve Maraboli,
15. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”-Martin Luther King Jr.