Quotes About Compassion

I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love." "And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice." "At base, we spend years studying the same thing.

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: "only one who practices grace can receive grace.

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

First Do No Harm,24

All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

We have to be tolerant of other people's points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.

At a Trump rally, many people were driven to anger and blame; there was name-calling and finger-pointing; there was a certain "my way or the highway" tone. At a Kasich event, people were given hope and all kinds of reasons to lift each other up instead of holding each other down; there was a "we're all in this soup together" tone.

Y si nos ofenden, ¿no nos vengamos? Si somos como vosotros en lo demás, también nos pareceremos a vosotros en esto. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, El mercader de Venecia

The Thatcherite emphasis on hard work and self-reliance sat alongside a belief that compassion should be a private virtue rather than a social practice. These are attitudes very different from the greedy individualism and sense of personal entitlement characteristic of much of the finance sector today.

For them the Ceylon diver held his breath,And went all naked to the hungry shark;For them his ears gush'd blood; for them in deathThe seal on the cold ice with piteous barkLay full of darts; for them alone did seetheA thousand men in troubles wide and dark:Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel,That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel.

The crown of theseIs made of love and friendship, and sits highUpon the forehead of humanity.

Don't judge a person till you've walked a mile in his shoes.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.