Quotes About Compassion

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

La verdadera nobleza es caminar toda tu vida con pasos atinados, con pasos que te salen del corazón; es que tus actos estén de acuerdo con tus ideas, aunque el precio sea alto. Y no imponer eses ideas a nadie y ser modesto y compasivo en tu grandeza.

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

Amar es dar lo que no se tiene a quien no es».

Compasión: capacidad para sentir el sufrimiento del otro, el miedo del otro, la necesidad del otro. Entendimiento profundo del dolor de los demás que sólo se consigue tras haber entendido el dolor propio.

Dice que la Dama pertenece a un tipo de personas que ella, Nyneve, conoce muy bien y que aborrece: aquellas que han sufrido un dolor y que por eso se creen justificadas para cometer cualquier tropelía, como si los demás individuos les debieran algo para siempre.

Uno sería infinitamente generoso con los muertos amados: pero claro, siempre es mucho más difícil ser generoso con los vivos.

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo y, en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

Man's inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person's own private responsibility.

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

Loving a person, she [Rachael] had told herself, is not finding perfection, but forgiving faults. ['Someone To Trust']

Rosanne Bittner

Moss," she went on softly. "When Christ died on the cross, two men hung on either side of him. Both were criminals, outlaws. He loved them both. And one of them asked Christ to forgive him, minutes before he died. And he was forgiven. If a person wishes to change his life, then God does not hold that person to blame for things in his past. Someone such as I has no right condemning another human being, when Christ does not condemn. I want very much to keep the case, Moss." She

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

There is such fear and exhaustion in their eyes that Erich says to Roger Erdman one morning, I find it difficult to look at them. I agree, says Roger. Because it could be us on those hard benches. And that's what we're most afraid of - to look out there and see ourselves.

Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.

The December night was cold and Anton had no coat. Gustav took off his woollen scarf and wrapped it round Anton's thin neck and Anton led the way, pounding very fast, towards Marinplatz, towards a dark beer cellar they used to frequent when they were young. They

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.