Quotes About Compassion

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

The essence of love is kindness.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.