Quotes About Compassion

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Make kindness an integral part of what you think, say and do. And, I assure you of this. It will give you a life filled with inner peace, love, joy, and happiness. -John Magee

A greeting, gesture or a giggle…leave other people feeling better than before they met you." -John Magee

Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.

Laughter's meant to be loving, wrapping itself around you like a hug, but when it's aimed at me, it seems cruel.

Everyone keeps telling me that I shouldn't feel guilty—but it doesn't seem to help much. What you feel is what you feel.

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

I can understand why they're doing it but understanding isn't the same as supporting.

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

Good King Wenceslas looked outOn the feast of Stephen,When the snow lay round about,Deep and crisp and even.

The way to restore the Wasteland is to embrace it with compassion, to become identified with it in exactly the same way that the lover identifies with the beloved: for what wounds the beloved wounds the lover.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

have treated you. The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

The ultimate victim of torture is the torturer, the one who inflicts pain and suffering at the cost of their humanity.

The cruelty of our enemies doesn't absolve us of this duty. This was never about them. It was about us.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.