Quotes About Compassion

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

You don't right the wrongs of past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

You don't right the wrongs of the past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)

Every gift, though small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.

The time to make your mind up about people, is never.

The time to make up your mind about people, is never.

That on any day you could pick there are thousands and thousands of little deaths, tiny tragedies, and that all of them matter.

And like all the people who lost no one, the tourists, who go to New York to cry over the rubble. I want to tell them to go home and hold their children or their lovers or their parents. I want to tell them that they are using that place as an excuse to be sad and afraid when there will be reason enough for that in their own lives if they just wait.

but how to each other we hold.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to the soul as mooring cables to an airship. To cut them willingly and without regret is to know true emancipation, the kind that cannot be granted by constitutions, proclamations, manifestos. Yes

There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it.

They say it's worse to see someone you love getting tortured or hurt than being tortured or hurt yourself.

Alexander refused to drink when his army could not. He took the helmet of precious water and poured it on the ground in full view of his army. To the parched men, for their king to share in their suffering in this way meant more than the water soaking into the sand. They were so heartened, says Arrian, it was as if they had each drunk every drop that he poured on the ground.

Levine found that in general, the cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.

One of Allen Ginsberg's T-shirts said, "Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Do you habitually find fault instead of looking for signs of goodness? Can you transform your disdain into a kinder feeling? Remember, you'll be doing it not for the other person, but to protect your soul from toxic emotions.

An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?

My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject. The ostensible subject may be whale hunting, or survival in Auschwitz, or waking up as a cockroach—but you don't read it because you're into fisheries or Nazis or entomology: you read it because your life was poorer before you started it, and because now you can't stop.

So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he exect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

No one cares how much we know unless they also know how much we care.

the real issue for most of us is that we always want to place limits on our love. We are ready to give, but only when we have something left over. We are willing to care as long as it isn't too inconvenient. We are able to love provided that people love us back.