Quotes About Compassion

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

May we all experience that kind of acceptance and love.

I'm here and it can work and I root for you and I like you a lot and try not to hurt each other.

I couldn't tell you why she felt that way but she felt it everyday. I couldn't help her; I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.

Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

N?ks laiks, kad cilv?ki vairs nesm?n?s, kad vi?i saprat?s, ka rad?t?js gan nodevis dz?vnieku pasauli m?su ž?last?bai, bet ne m?su patva?ai: ka dz?vniekiem ir t?das pašas ties?bas uz dz?vi k? mums un ka m?su ties?bas laup?t vi?iem dz?v?bu ir stingri turamas m?su pašaizsardz?bas un eksistences ties?bu robež?s.

You cannot be a good doctor without pity.

Charles Murray, who in 1994 cowrote The Bell Curve. When his book was published I was still a student at the University of Leiden, where it seemed everyone was talking about this horribly racist book that argued that black people were genetically of lower intelligence than white people. I read it, of course, and I found it to be the opposite of racist, a compassionately written book about the urban challenges that confront black people more than white. All black people should read it.

Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to hold that the sword verses (9:5 and also 9:29) have "abrogated, canceled, and replaced" those verses that call for "tolerance, compassion, and peace."32

I said, "Allah wouldn't test us on whether we condemn somebody who became pregnant outside of marriage; He would test us on our hospitality and charity.

When people say that the values of Islam are compassion, tolerance, and freedom, I look at reality, at real cultures and governments, and I see that it simply isn't so. People in the West swallow this sort of thing because they have learned not to examine the religions or cultures of minorities too critically, for fear of being called racist. It fascinates them that I am not afraid to do so.

As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't have at home.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.

The missing link can only come through the practice of loving-kindness toward ourselves, in spite of everything we know about ourselves. Only then, in fact, will we be able to love others, without criticism or judgment.

It's only when the heart that we get the response that the heart of others can give.

when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with "trembling for the welfare of beings.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . .

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

The more you give of yourself, the more you find of yourself.