Napoleon Hill Quotes

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives also expand. Actions to benefit others are not separate from actions to benefit oneself. Our lives and the lives of others are ultimately inseparable.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.