Quotes About Compassion

True happiness lies in being compassionate and appreciating the world and our circumstances, rather than being coldhearted and greedy. We often realize too late that our favorite moments are those spent simply with the people we love. In seeing the miracles that unfold around us every day. Eventually we all come to understand that our happiness is derived from being present in the moment. Why wait until the end of your life to discover this Truth?

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." —GANDHI It's

A kind word is like a Spring day.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

Instead, the weak-chinned Padre Guzmán opted for love-thy-neighbour in times of trouble. That might have worked in the big city, where not knowing your neighbours made it easier to love them. But in a town of four thousand people it fooled no one.

I don't want you to be like other men. I want you to be who you are. And when I look at you, I see a caring and tender man who only wants the best for others. When we make love, that's the person I'm going to be with." Then

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

But wherever I go, I know I will feel most at home with the wounded of the world, who hold their heads up high no matter how broken they may seem.

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?" -Ruthie

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Yet there are times in life when God gently draws us back to our places of pain and invites us to take another look. He does not call us back to aggravate our wounds or cause us emotional harm. When God calls, he calls with good purpose; and when he urges us back to a hard place, he does so in order to heal us. Only then can we truly move on.

Remembering his own feelings when he had lost his eye on a mission for the British, Dayan stopped at their bedside to cheer them up. "Boys," he said, "for all that's worth seeing in this wretched world, one eye is enough.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. HENRI NOUWEN, THE WOUNDED HEALER

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.

I don't judge people. I don't think we should/

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Their pain was bigger than their love. You had to forgive them for that.

Just because you don't care about anyone doesn't mean everyone else is like that too!

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?