Quotes About Compassion

Esto es algo que nunca debemos olvidar: mientras otros muestran su heroísmo en la guerra o frente a los alemanes, nuestros protectores lo hacen con su buen ánimo y el cariño que nos demuestran.

While washing up, Bep began talking to Mother and Mrs van Daan about how discourages she gets. What help did those two offer her? Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. Do you know what her advice was? That she should think about all the other people in the world who are suffering! How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself?

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears.

If people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

But there's one thing I can't do, and that's to love Mother with the devotion of a child. I soothe my conscience with the thought that it's better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart.

November 27th, 1943 It was mean of me to treat her that way, and now she was looking at me, oh so helplessly, with her pale face and beseeching eyes. If only I could help her! Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she's probably going to die? What's the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

El llanto es capaz de proporcionar alivio, pero tiene que haber alguien con quien llorar.

Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?

If we can save even one of our friends, the rest doesn't matter.

Por otra parte, creo que toda desgracia va acompañada de alguna cosa bella, y si te fijas en ella, descubres cada vez más alegría y encuentras un mayor equilibrio. Y el que es feliz hace feliz a los demás; el que tiene valor y fe nunca estará sumido en la desgracia.

It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Freitag, 20. November 1942 Bei allem, was ich tue, muss ich an die anderen denken, die weg sind. Und wenn ich wegen etwas lachen muss, höre ich erschrocken wieder auf und denke mir, dass es eine Schande ist, so fröhlich zu sein. Aber muss ich denn den ganzen Tag weinen? Nein, das kann ich nicht und sie wird wohl auch wieder vorbeigehen, diese Niedergeschlagenheit.

Ich sehe, wie die Welt allmählich in eine Wildnis verwandelt wird. Ich höre den nahenden Donner, der auch uns vernichten wird, ich kann das Leiden von Millionen spüren und dennoch glaube ich, wenn ich zum Himmel blicke, dass alles in Ordnung gehen und auch diese Grausamkeit ein Ende finden wird und dass Ruhe und Frieden wieder einkehren werden.

Não quero que minha vida tenha passado em vão, como a da maioria das pessoas. Quero ser útil ou trazer alegria a todas as pessoas, mesmo àquelas que jamais conheci. Quero continuar vivendo depois da morte!

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

Whoever is happy will make others happy to.

No amor e na guerra vale tudo.

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.

There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.

Even when no one loves you, there is always someone to love, someone who needs to be loved. Always. You just have to look outside yourself.

One word frees us all the weight and pain of life: That word is Love. -Sophocles

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.