Compassion Quotes

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothin...

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, ...

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity...

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim...

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb ...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There ar...

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that en...

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou...

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat...

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized s...

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society f...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or ...

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global shar...

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commerc...

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for to...

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform act...

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard pe...

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the ligh...

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what...

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply res...

Next time you say "I have nothing incommon with this person," remember that you have a great deal in...

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce a...

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points t...

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, ...

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing i...

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're al...

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one ano...

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred t...

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of di...

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the c...

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one b...

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not yo...

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the...

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassion...

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and com...

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many...

True love is born from understanding.

I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, beca...

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as...

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it wa...

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I supp...

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with...

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compass...

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more complet...

However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity...

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea...

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities ...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of here...

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the aca...

We only have what we give.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who h...

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe i...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo...

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ...

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It...

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that...