Quotes About Compassion

Life is about being nice to people and believing in yourself..

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?

God says it is a righteous act to regard (or care for) the life of our animals. Logic tells us that this means we should treat them well, care for their needs, and protect and provide for them.

If we don't meet people's felt needs, we will never meet their real needs.

I do not believe," said Wilson, "that any man can lead who does not act … under the impulse of a profound sympathy with those whom he leads—a sympathy which is insight—an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.

Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It

I fell off a dogsled down a frozen waterfall and landed on sharp ice on a kneecap. It was so agonizing, I thought, seriously, that my heart would stop. But I found that my whole dog team loved and worried about me so much, they curved downstream and worked back up to me to surround me as I lay clutching my lacerated knee, whimpering and pushing their warm bodies against me. I remember the love, the dog love, much more than the shattered knee. . . .

Misery loves company, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the invitation.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Soon you will be home and in my arms and the world will reconfigure itself around you and there will be enough compassion for you to feel scared by how much I care for you.

I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind)

After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was the depth of my forgiveness.

Poor Sasha. Not meant for these times, Ed said. They were both somehow cheered up by this conversation. But he means well.

tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik

Y, como creía en el enfado de dos enamorados, se alejó encogiéndose de hombros y expresando de forma solapada la piedad que sentía por unos jóvenes que perdían en vanas disputas las horas que el buen Dios les ha permitido pasar en la tierra.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Il ne m'a manqué que d'être aimé pour être bon!

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido