Quotes About Compassion

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

I think someone needs more morphine," Dr. Raymond said

T.R. "Tina" Threston is one of the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and calling friend. There are many beautiful women in the world, but, most of the beauty is skin deep. Tina is the exception to this rule -- her beauty radiates from within from her intellect to her compassion for others, and, she is a true physical beauty -- very pleasing to the eye. She is a rare gem in today's society. Any man lucky enough to capture her heart should hold on tight and not let go.

They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

oh beloved, no matter the intensity of the furnace you may find yourself in, Our beloved Heavenly Father is goodness He is faithfulness He is the unchanging One He is kindness He is compassion He is benevolence He is joy He is peace He is love He is grace – oh, so full of grace.

betrayal—it is only as you give up your rights to vindicate yourself, it is only in laying down the injustices, it is only in forgiving those who have wronged you—that you lay down your life. And as you lay down

There's nothing more worth doing than trying to be a human in an increasingly dehumanized world.

The emotional involvement, the pity, desire, and compassion of the bhakti gods causes them to forget that they are above it all, as metaphysics demands, and reduces them to the human level, as mythology demands.

capable heart. As has happened countless times, he lost me for months on end and not only never complained, he immersed himself in the story, escorted and supported me, provided me with endless pots of tea and emergency gin and tonics. Sorry for the nightmares. Wendy Holden

Gossip went on forever. As Mr. Auden said, 'There is always a great deal of interest in a door behind which something is happening'—but gossip belonged in the realms of a small and uncompassionate world, and Wilfred had seen that the world was larger and more multiple than could ever be described and explained by tittle-tattle.

For as much as Hillary Clinton might hate admitting this about Monica Lewinisky, Eleanor Roosevelt about Missy Le Hand, Queen Alexandra about Lillie Langtry, Lady Nelson about Emma Hamilton, or Jackie about Marilyn, the reality is that despite their intrinsic animosity toward each other, on a a deep level, the wife and the mistress generally have far more in common than they might care to admit and could, had fate dealt them different cards, even been true friends.

The right kind of listener makes a difference. When someone takes the time to hear us out, something singular happens. By being interested and showing it, the listener becomes part of the tale.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you learn to let go? —JACK KORNFIELD, BUDDHIST TEACHER

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.