Quotes About Compassion

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing.

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.

Who suffers more? After a personal disagreement and quarrel between a woman and a man, the one party suffers most at the thought of having hurt the other; while that other party suffers most at the thought of not having hurt the first enough; for which reason it tries by tears, sobs, and contorted features, to weigh down the other person's heart, even afterwards

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

Compassion and love for mankind is a development of the sexual instinct, justice a development of the passion for revenge. Virtue is the pleasure in resistance, the will to power; honour is the recognition of one's peers and equals in power.

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.

dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan

What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame.

Only the boldest Utopians would dream of the economy of kindness.

whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.

If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best. And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto THYSELF, however--how could I forgive that! Thus speaketh all great love: it surpasseth even forgiveness and pity. One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

Todo lo que se hace por amor, se hace más allá del bien y del mal.

Eres para tu amigo aire puro y soledad, pan y medicina? Hay quienes no pueden desatar sus propias cadenas y sin embargo son salvadores para sus amigos.

Enemy you shall say but not villain, sick you shall say but not wretch, fool you shall say but not sinner.