Quotes About Compassion

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

In order to help another effectively I must understand more than he – yet first of all surely I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. If, however, I am disposed to plume myself on my greater understanding, it is because I am vain or proud, so that at bottom, instead of benefiting him, I want to be admired.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the priest says, Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me?

If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.

Quise mantener mi sufrimiento oculto para entonces embellecer la vida a los demás.

But one thing I will not do; no, not for anything in the world: I will not, though it were merely with the last quarter of the last joint of my little finger, I will not take part in what is known as official Christianity, which by suppression and by artifice gives the impression of being the Christianity of the New Testament; and upon my knees I thank my God that He has compassionately prevented me from becoming too far embroiled in it.

Mil gracias merece el que encontrándose con uno a quien han asaltado las tribulaciones de esta vida hasta dejarlo desnudo, le ofrece con la fuerza de sus palabras con qué cubrir su miseria.

Skal man hjelpe en annen, må man først finne ut hvor han er, og møte ham der. Dette er det første bud i all sann hjelpekunst.

por muchas que sean las cosas espantosas y repugnantes que hayas visto en el mundo, cosas que desearías poder olvidar porque quebrantan tu ánimo, tu confianza, te causan hastío de vivir y repulsión por la vida, ¡basta con que consideres cómo el amor edifica para que quedes edificado en las ganas de vivir! Hay infinitos objetos de que poder hablar, pero solo hay uno edificante: cómo edifica el amor.

Self-reflection is always an early step to healing, and forgiveness is the soul's sweetest healing.

When we continually focus on the wrongs other members of the family or broader society have inflicted upon us, the unfairness, the pain, the humiliation of it all can make it so difficult to move forward into compassion. Forgiveness is rarely about others. We forgive for our own spiritual welfare.

Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.

And I have come to see that the better you treat someone, the more you love them – which is why you must never let someone treat you badly, for the worse they do to you, the more they will hate you. I

It is itself a kindness to accept kindness, Doctor.

Sam's father would have warned him that a man who lifts his hand to harm a friend harms himself the deepest.

Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our hearts and minds. The Other Side of You

love is an emotion that recognizes itself in others.

If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.

people understood for the first time [...] that in the end the salvation of human beings came from other human beings and not from things, no matter how large and imposing – and even magical – those things might be

But great tragedy is universal

And the most gladdening thing was the discovery that even the unforgivable crime of being one's father could be forgiven, after all, in the end.

Will you love me when I get sick and start to fail, to descend, as is inevitable, toward death?" he said. "Do you really want to nurse a dying man and have to grieve for all the love you wasted on him?" "Love is never a waste," she said.

his mother going out to work while his father sat hidden behind the veil which the stroke had dropped over his brain …

The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don't you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one of us sits on us all and bends our backs. See what you're doing to your husband's people, how you repay the ones who took you in when you came penniless and a fugitive from that godless country over there.