Compassion Quotes

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on...

By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly reve...

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Give, but give until it hurts.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardnes...

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture ...

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday ...

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human bein...

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compas...

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just le...

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often pr...

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his mea...

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of ...

...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s...

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understa...

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold...

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear ...

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah som...

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect a...

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into di...

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money i...

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyo...

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

No amount of 'peace-building' will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained, in a...

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. I...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disa...

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough p...

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you d...

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a ...

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion fr...

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identif...

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rub...

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups...

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carri...

I want the white one

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do eve...

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mo...

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not quea...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisi...

Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when He...

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the p...

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-...

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed drago...

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer becau...

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned...

Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attit...

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When...

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all...

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...

We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

Take off that coat,' he told him.'Sir?''You heard me.'The boy slipped out of his jacket, whining, 'W...

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an...

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes ...

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the pri...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is ...

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of...

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians name...