Quotes About Compassion

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

I am just and honest, not because I expect to live in another world, but because, having felt the pain of injustice and dishonesty towards myself, I have a fellow-felling with other men, who would suffer the same pain if I were unjust or dishonest towards them. It is a pang to me to witness the suffering of a fellow-being, and I feel his suffering the more acutely because he is mortal—because his life is so short, and I would have it, is possible, filled with happiness and not misery

What are we here for if not to make life easier for each other?

Tal como Vesálio, não posso impedir a ignorância e o rancor das pessoas. Não podemos orientar o nosso comportamento em função das tolices dos outros, que são sempre imprevisíveis.

Existe un poder en la mirada de un alma humana sincera y afectuosa que contribuye más a disipar los prejuicios y avivar la comprensión que los argumentos más elaborados.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

surely the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him—which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

Poor dog!" said Dinah, patting the rough grey coat, "I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

For the wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

thee mustna take me unkind. I wasna driving at thee in what I said just now. Some 's got one way o' looking at things and some 's got another." "Nay, nay, Addy, thee mean

It was a question whether gratitude which refers to what is done for one's self ought not to give way to indignation at what is done against another

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

Love one another.

I don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

None knows the weight of another's burthen.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

forgiveness is actually for yourself: until you forgive, you carry the burden and the weight of the grief.

The nurturant parent model has two equal parents, whose job is to nurture their children and teach their children to nurture others. Nurturance has two dimensions: empathy and responsibility, for oneself and others.

We can now see clearly why liberal arguments for social programs can make no sense at all to conservatives, whether they are arguments on the basis of compassion, fairness, wise investment, financial responsibility, or outright self-interest.

The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It