Quotes About Compassion

It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

All human life is precious.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ("reverence for life").

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

A life is a life no matter how small

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

I really enjoy delivering life-changing news to people who really deserve it.