Quotes About Compassion

O menino abandonado não me abandonou. Entrou dentro de mim e mora comigo. Me faz sofrer. Me dá ternura. Sempre que vejo uma criança abandonada, eu sofro. Quereria poder protegê-la, cuidar dela. Eu me enterneço porque a criança abandonada que mora em mim está sofrendo.

O ato de ouvir exige humildade de quem ouve. E a humildade está nisso: saber, não com a cabeça, mas com o coração, que é possível que o outro veja mundos que nós não vemos.

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga

The essence of neuroplasticity is that what you practise you'll cultivate. If you are cruel and spiteful, you'll become expert at getting even crueller and more spiteful. If you practise being compassionate, you'll become more compassionate. That's how our brains work; the way we think or feel determines our wiring and what chemicals are coursing through our veins. If

to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

our hearts bleed because we hear of a beached whale while the next minute we're baying for the blood of someone who stole the last shopping trolley.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.

Why are they like that?" I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. "I don't know," Cico answered, "except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other—and it's worse when they're in a group.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately.

Why is it so important for some people to think of boppers as mindless machines? Why do zerks laugh at monkeys in a zoo? Why do rich people say that poor people are getting what they deserve? Why don't you show compassion for your fellow creatures? If you drop your selfishness, you can lose your guilt. And, wave it, once your guilt is gone, you won't need to hate.

Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.

I have eaten your bread and salt.I have drunk your water and wine.The deaths ye died I have watched besideAnd the lives ye led were mine.

For frantic boast and foolish word—Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Little Friend of All the World.

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'GradyAre sisters under their skins!

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

It would have been far easier to write about an active Order; people can see, understand and admire the good they do. 'Sister,' said a young American soldier when, in India, he watched a nun bandaging the rotting and malodorous finger stumps of an old leper, 'Sister, I wouldn't do your work for ten thousand dollars a day.' 'Neither would I,' said the nun.

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts.