Quotes About Compassion

The more a person loves own-self, the less s/he likes or loves others; yet gets around oneself many, but all self-centered people only.

The proportion to which a person's heart is devoid of compassion tends to find own mind empty to get the happiness in personal life a plenty.

The quantity by which a person's heart is empty of quality empathetic feeling has his/her mind dirty.

The way to make a difference in others life is to say only what they can't; but to make it really good, do for them what they sanely need and not selfishly want.

The wise feels the pain often under the same situation where others find the pleasure.

There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.

a man life is from womb to tomb,so be good and good to people and be be happy untill you live on earth

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone's selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.

all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.

No one ever truly arrives! We just nudge each other along muddy ruts of suffering, occasionally peeking over the edges of our ruts in search of a better way...

Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.

Life is an opportunity for us to contribute something that outlasts us and makes the world a better place.

Last entry. "For God's sake, look after our people.

Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around.

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?

this kindness returns me to myself. it reminds me of the kindness of other things i love

Privilege is just another word for not having to care.

everybody loves a poet a poet loves everybody

Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence