Quotes About Compassion

En los campos fui capaz de servir humildemente a los hombres que Dios ponía en mi camino cada día. Si las obras del espíritu en nosotros las acabamos conociendo lentamente, ¿cómo no vamos a empezar a detectar aún más lentamente las obras de ese espíritu en los demás? Mientras realizaba mi labor diaria, daba gracias a Dios una y otra vez por la terrible etapa de purificación que atravesé en Lubianka para poder servir a aquellos hombres.

It means the routine, not the spectacular. It can mean drudgery, pain, putting aside pleasures, happiness, or the love the human heart craves until another time, so that what is necessary at the moment can be done. It means working for others, touching the lives of others, through the medium of the body.

Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's mother convinced her owner ("she having nursed him when a child") to sell her son in the neighborhood rather than to a slave trader.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

Perhaps that was the day when the bombed synagogue opened again. Or the one when I went to a cobbler who was repairing shoes with the leather from stolen Torah rolls. "I didn't know it was sacred leather," he said. We collected all the pieces together, and he refused the money that I tried to give him for a few ladies' shoes with Hebrew letters written in ancient ink on the soles.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Those whom we love and admire most are the men and women whose consciousness is peopled thickly with persons rather than with types, who know us rather than the classification into which we might fit.

I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.

He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

Es gibt genügend praktische Erfindungen, die uns keinerlei Trost spenden", hatte Dylia einmal ihren Brüdern mitgeteilt. "Aber viel zu wenige trostspendende, die überhaupt keinen praktischen Nutzen haben.

Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.

This escapade taught me a lesson," Nimitz later recalled, "to look with lenient and tolerant eye on first offenders when in later years they appeared before me as a Commanding Officer holding Mast."8

Amar es buscar el bien del otro y disfrutarlo, que su dolor nos duela y su alegría nos alegre, y con el amor propio ocurre algo similar: si no te perdonas, si te fastidia estar contigo mismo, si no te soportas y te menosprecias, ¡pues no te amas!

Si tu dolor no me duele, pues entonces estoy lejos, muy lejos de ti.

Conozco personas que podrían manejar las relaciones árabe-israelíes o Moscú- Washington a la perfección, pero que no son capaces de expresar amor a sus seres queridos. La diplomacia es una profesión peligrosa.

Amar es buscar el bien del otro y disfrutarlo, que su dolor nos duela y su alegría nos alegre

La indiferencia mata

El amor no sólo se siente, también se piensa y se asume en el dolor ajeno.

Cuando te sorprendas tratándote mal, activa la consideración, las buenas maneras, la cortesía, la amabilidad, y ofrécete disculpas. Sí, disculpas, como si no fueras tú mismo. El cuerpo escucha, la mente asimila.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?