“First of all, let me repeat what I said before: everybody has a good story to tell, and it is part of the human condition to share a little of our experience with others.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.”— Gloria Naylor, amazon.com
“If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.”— Cassandra Clare, goodreads.com
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, theodysseyonline.com
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— Donald Winnicott, goodreads.com
“There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“The hardest thing about having nothing is having nothing to give.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”— Luna Adriana, goodreads.com
“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other - but that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn’t been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what I had happened.”— Alice Hoffman, amazon.com
“Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.”— Turkish Proverb, amazon.com
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”— Carl Rogers, stepbystepcounselling.co.uk