Compassion Quotes
Compassion Quote of the day
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.
Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.
Heaven’s Tao is impartial, yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else – someone like the blonde ticket-seller.
I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.