Sympathy, when excessive, moves toward sentimental condescension and eventually disdain; when insincere, it becomes unctuously hypocritical; and when associated with loose thinking, it is a bad guide to policy and frequently has disastrous results - Theodore Dalrymple http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_otbie-sympathy.html
Service in this world is the highest prayer. Loving the people around us is the greatest devotion - Swami Chinmayananda
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others - Audrey Hepburn
People being nice to each other doesn't get enough press. http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait102.html
Our task must be to free ourselves?by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security - Albert Einstein
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something - Henry David Thoreau
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another - Charles Dickens
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation - Oscar Wilde
Moral progress is the realisation that other human beings are fully as human as you are - Philip Toynbee
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more - traditional Irish blessing