Quotes About Compassion

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable.

Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.