Quotes About Compassion

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

This is the basic human story. We are all on the same journey. Every one of us will suffer—there's no way around it. The crucial question is not how to avoid suffering, it's how we move through it.

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

I make them feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases, which, most of the time and especially in the Clinic, don't hardly exist at all. With me, they feel they're still part of the human race.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

took her in my arms and let her cry, and I was crying too. After she'd quieted some, I asked for her husband's number, and after I did the workup for rape, I called him. He'd been worried stiff, and was glad she was not dead. He couldn't know, yet, that part of her had died.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Become a master of love, it is the most powerful emotion, and, what is life without it?

Don't cry over a lost friend. And remember, that person lost a friend too.

We all have a heartbeat.. We all have a soul.. We are all human. And that's all that matters