Quotes About Compassion

Quem investe apenas nos jovens que lhe dão retorno não é digno de ser chamado de educador. Um excelente educador abraça os alienados, atrai os que o decepcionaram, cativa os rebeldes, aposta nos que erram frequentemente, dá o melhor de si para aqueles em que ninguém acedita. Perdas sempre nos acompanharão; o que nos diferencia dos animais é o que fazemos com elas.

Estimados educadores, debemos tener en mente que los débiles condenan, los fuertes comprenden, los débiles juzgan, los fuertes perdonan.

Ser um ser humano sem fronteiras não é ser ingénuo nem pôr em perigo a vida desnecessariamente. Lembrem-se que eu não os chamei para serem heróis. Não provoquem muito menos enfrentem os ofensores. Dar a outra face não é sinónimo de fragilidade, mas de força. Não é sinónimo de estupidez, mas de lucidez.

Ninguna técnica psicológica funcionará si el amor no funciona.

Los padres brillantes no forman héroes, sino seres humanos que conocen sus limitaciones y sus fortalezas.

Atravesó capas y capas de sufrimiento humano. Y encontró que la gente más martirizada era la más buena y noble. Pero encontró también que esta bondad y esta nobleza estaban tan degradadas y envilecidas que eran una cosa inútil y que, a menos que se rebelaran violentamente, seguirían siendo siempre una cosa inútil.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

You'll find yourself in a tough situation one day, and on that day only a true friend with soften the situation.

If you ask me for help, I probably won't be able to, but will that stop me from trying? Absolutely not.

Don't try to change other people, people rarely change.

Love yourself more and spread love all around you.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.