Quotes About Compassion

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.

Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

But you will never know another's heart, unless you are prepared to give yours too.

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.

I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted.