Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

Being a woman it's my responsibility to be with needy people.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

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.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

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.

Service is what life is all about.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

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