Quotes About Compassion

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

We need to learn that even though "we look different" and "we think different . . . we're all life.

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

Love and justice mingle, truth and mercy meet

They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.

She was worn and tense and there were dark shadows under her eyes; he wished that he could do something to ease her pain and knew that he could not.

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites. That troubles me. People like that hear bad news from across the world, and they burst into wails and tears as though their own children have just been run over by a bus. To me, they don't seem very different from actors and actresses—they are able to burst into tears on command, but does it really mean anything?

can certainly see someone's actions over a period of time, and I will come to care for that person in response to how he or she acts toward me.

learning how to get along with other people is vital for our own success and happiness.

I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

When you take care of your people, meditate on whose blood has washed them clean.

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

I let go, crying and unable to stop, because God was such a dirty crook, such a contemptible skunk; that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman wouldn't be so maimed, and neither would the world.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Bryn looked from Halt to Horace and back again. He saw no pity in either face. "I don't want to," he said in a very small voice. Horace found it hard to reconcile this cringing figure with the sneering bully who had been making his life hell for the past few months. Halt appeared to consider Bryn's statement. "We'll note your protest," he said cheerfully. "Now continue, please.