Quotes About Compassion

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.

Nothing distresses me more than to see men torment each other; particularly when in the flower of their age, in the very season of pleasure, they waste their few short days of sunshine in quarrels and disputes, and only perceive their error when it is too late to repair it.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

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

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try