Quotes About Compassion

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.

every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell. One

act calm and kind regardless of how you feel

if we want people to feel that they have been treated with respect and dignity, we might have to tolerate some noise.

What I fail to understand is how a civilized world that claims to be so appalled by such brutality can simply turn its back on the victims.

Simon shook his head. 'The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the whole damn world is unraveling.

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE BE HAPPY. ALL VIRTUE LIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THAT, IN WORKING FOR OTHERS, IN PROTECTING THE WEAK FROM THE STRONG.

Loving everyone," said Jimmy, "is almost the same thing as loving nobody." He paused. "You're awfully hard on the people who love you.

An avowed anti-Catholic, Maurice Maeterlinck, the twentieth-century Belgian philosopher and playwright, weighed in with: "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Greene: "It's not reasonable to expect actual humans to put aside nearly everything they love for the sake of the greater good. Speaking for myself, I spend money on my children that would be better spent on distant starving children, and I have no intention of stopping. After all, I'm only human! But I'd rather be a human who knows that he's a hypocrite, and who tries to be less so, than one who mistakes his species-typical moral limitations for ideal values.

Being truly human and living in community are inseparable. This wisdom is beautifully captured in an African proverb: "I am human only because you are human."13

Keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they possibly can and realize that if they knew better, they'd do better—therefore, be gentle.

Lift up humanity. Turn toward those who try to do you harm, and silently bless them

never trying to change others, but rather giving them the freedom to be as they are and seeing the beauty in them as is.