Quotes About Compassion

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

May this morning prayer give me the energy to act at all times this day with love and kindness. May I treat each person and each living being as a brother or sister, as a member of your sacred family.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it.

All that rescues us is love.

Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good." "If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

God is so cruel," she murmured reflectively, as though answering him. "Yes," he admitted, from the vantage point of going blind. "Though maybe people are kinder if He made them that way." "You've run with a different crowd. Rich people are nicer to rich people." "Sure. Yes. That's why I've washed up here. Rich people couldn't have been nicer to me.

Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?

Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.

These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.

One finds that constant quiet sympathy is not only one of the most lovable qualities, but one of the very rarest.