Quotes About Compassion

It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.

He views life with tenderness and determination.

We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.

He gives before he is asked.

He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Life is very short; be willing to serve.

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?