Quotes About Compassion

Become peace. Bathe all you meet with your serenity. In doing so, peace will be abundantly yours.

La compassion demeure une voie d´accès à la compréhension, une forme supérieure d´intelligence.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

To heal a person, one must first be a person. We are all spiritual beings. Health care is a spiritual discipline. Notes

I knew you're a God of love. You're always ready to change your mind about punishing people." -Jonah

Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet because he wept for the peoples' sins.

Dans ce monde, il faut être un peu trop bon pour l'être assez.

Non bisogna mai esagerare il male che si può fare agli altri. Meglio lasciare a loro questo piacere.

Era uno di quei momenti in cui, malgrado i nostri tormenti interiori, siamo segretamente contenti di non essere l'altro. Così si sferruzzano i lutti. Piccoli istanti di gioia tra gli assalti della disperazione, un diritto e un rovescio, fino alla felicità ritrovata di essere se stessi… Sì, deve essere questa, dopo tutto, la felicità: la soddisfazione di non essere l'altro.

Il migliore amico mi ha risposto che non sarebbe andato a trovare Tijo in ospedale; preferiva conservare di lui l'immagine di una "vitalità indistruttibile". Delicatezza disgustosa, che abbandona un uomo alla propria agonia. Odio gli amici in spirito. Mi piacciono solo gli amici in carne e ossa.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (2009)

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

No one intervened—hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant—and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

If someone is woke, it means they care about issues involving racial intolerance and societal injustice.

I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.

la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

This notion of eternal punishment strikes me as one of the most perverse ideas ever devised. Monotheistic religions describe their God as merciful and compassionate, and in the same breath tell us that this merciful and compassionate God will sentence people to eternal torture if they don't believe in his existence, despite a complete lack of objective evidence. Is it just me, or are we looking at a bit of a contradiction?

Grandma never understood fear, especially if it was someone else's.

It was nice to be invited to eat with another family. The Garretts didn't have a dad either, but I never asked why. I liked the feeling of not having to explain that part of myself to someone else and thought Erin might feel the same way.