Quotes About Compassion

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

Your smile lights my way through life, and keeps me warm inside. It reminds me that people are good, especially when their snide.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

Only those live who do good.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .