Quotes About Compassion

At night too, she puzzled at the mystery of her desperate need for kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

It doesn't matter what you said that night. I want you from me to have the experience of being loved.) [Anaïs]

Pouvoir, au milieu de la folie, redevenir humaine et pitoyable.

En mí todo es o bien adoración y pasión, o bien lástima y comprensión. Raramente odio, si bien, cuando lo hago, odio atrozmente.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously

I always try to soften what happened by understanding.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

recently came across a saying by the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren. "Be kind," he wrote, "for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else's expense.

whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view. When you do this, good and evil shuffle into patterns and you are capable of forgiving trespasses. When you understand from whence the good or evil came, and the other person's actions or motivations, only then can you forgive and let it go. Most children believe that

I'd keep it [Kevlar vest] with me in my vehicle, but I wouldn't bring it into people's homes. Surrounded by Bosnians who didn't have protection, I felt that it was inappropriate for me to stay sealed off. I wanted them to tell me their stories, risk exposing themselves to me. I couldn't ask that of someone if I wasn't willing to expose myself as well.

I recently came across a saying by the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren. "Be kind," he wrote, "for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind.

You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind.

I've at last come to know that forgiveness is much simpler than I could ever have imagined: whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.

Ours is an illusionless humanism that cares about protecting our species, especially from itself. We must forgive humanity, and ourselves, for being what we are – neither angels nor beasts...

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.

So as long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Amas lo inhumano.