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Concern For Others Quotes - Page 2

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama
Concern For Others, Mind, Source

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

Dalai Lama
Worry Less, Concern For Others, Genuine Happiness

What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

Dalai Lama
Compassion, Practice, Concern For Others
The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.10, Hachette UK

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

Gore Vidal
Self, Concern For Others, Greed
"Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

Dalai Lama
Honesty, Concern For Others, Violence

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

Alexander McCall Smith
Block, Thinking, Concern For Others
Source: www.abc.net.au

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