Quotes About Compassion

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part of mankind.

If, by telling a lie, one can make someone happy, why not tell the damn lie?

Try loving your enemies. If nothing else, you'll confuse them.

The kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies.

kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A

she knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry — not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.

In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.' It was this stranger who gave us sustenance on the road, just as strangers had given me company on the way to the Pindar Glacier. On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The

the hunting of animals was distasteful to me. Live and let live was always my creed.

All men are my friends. I have only to meet them.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

At the age of twelve [his daughter] Mary Rodgers Guettel asked her father whether he believed in God and he answered that he believed in people. 'If somebody is really sick, I don't pray to God, I look for the best doctor in town.

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does.

I'm genuinely and actually a bit like Jesus.

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)

sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his sins, thus to help him when God would still continue a just punishment, is to do wrong, no doubt about it, and we do that more than we help those who are deserving

Ask not what your age wants," Brownson said, "but what it needs; not what it will reward, but what, without which, it cannot be saved; and that go and do; and find your reward in the consciousness of having done your duty, and above all in the reflection that you have been accounted to suffer somewhat for mankind.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

That's because the truth is, the only things that are going to bring lasting happiness to your life are good health and knowledge of self, which lead to a compassionate relationship with the world.