Quotes About Compassion

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

1) Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

Check out your own emotions and intentions before offering, giving, or receiving help.

Suppose a boy steals an apple From the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief, The editor, minister, judge, and all the people – «A thief», «a thief», «a thief», wherever he goes. And he can't get work, and he can't get bread Without stealing it, why the boy will steal. It's the way people regard the theft of an apple That makes the boy what he is.

he couldn't help but laugh. "I was lying there bleeding, I needed 40 stitches, and everyone ran to Edgar. Only one guy came to me. Junior. He leaned over me as I lay on the ground, my eyelid hanging off, and told me, 'Edgar's hurt. You're screwed.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.