Emily Dickinson Quotes

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

If you make someone feel better they are going to make others feel better.