Quotes About Compassion

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself', declares Paul in one of his most frequently quoted sentences.

His heart was simply to big for his body.

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

Suppose," Helen Yokoyama said, "that some people have a philosophy of life which enables them to regard all human beings as belonging to a single family. Even though they might not know each other, even though they might live thousands of miles apart, they might still believe in their

closeness to one another and in their obligations to one another. The same love that members of a family feel for one another can be felt by these people for all others, especially for those who are terribly in need of help. Is this not possible?

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Aconsejar a los pobres que bajen de peso, se alimenten bien y hagan ejercicio resulta casi un insulto.

Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

When for self, prayer and wish no good; only work good for self. But when wish with heart for other, can help.

The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the pale of humanity.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.