Quotes About Compassion

Soms laat ons die dinge wat vir ons die heiligste is in ander se sorg. Wanneer ons dit deel, leef die verhaal voort, ná ons en ons tyd. 'n Daad van geloof en liefde.

Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

Ho compreso che ben pochi realizzano se stessi prima di morire: e ho giudicato con maggiore pietà le loro opere interrotte.

Ho compreso che il suicidio apparirebbe una prova d'indifferenza, fors'anche di ingratitudine, alla piccola cerchia di amici devoti che mi circondavano: non voglio lasciare al loro affetto questa immagine del suppliziato che digrigna i denti, e non sa sopportare ancora una tortura.

Ma propre vie ne me préoccupait plus : je pouvais de nouveau penser au reste des hommes.

Lo guardé a mi servicio; su presencia me sirve de advertencia, quizá de castigo. No había querido dejar tuerto a aquel miserable. Pero tampoco había querido que un niño que me amaba muriera a los veinte años.

El sufrimiento nos hace egoístas porque nos absorbe por entero: sólo más tarde, en forma de recuerdo, nos enseña la compasión.

Mangiare carne è digerire le agonie di altri esseri viventi

Les pires exemples de férocité ne servent jamais qu'à durcir chez l'auditeur quelques fibres de plus, et comme le cÅ"ur humain a déjà à peu près la mollesse d'une pierre, je ne crois pas nécessaire de travailler plus dans ce sens. (p. 140)

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

You talk of falling in love as if it were a terrible fall: for my part, I should pity a person much more for falling down stairs.

That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.

Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes.

having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

They were very, very kind to each other and, in my discombobulated state, this was soothing.

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?

Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person. If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.

Love makes the world go round

She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period

Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

You really can change the world if you care enough.