Quotes About Compassion

The wealthiest person on earth is one who appreciates.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." —JOHN WOODEN

laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Buddha once said to a man who was insulting and criticizing him, "If someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, to whom does it belong?" The man replied, "Then it belongs to the person who offered it." To which Buddha replied, "That is correct.  So if I decline to accept your abuse, does it not then still belong to you?

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!

John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men.

Grace was allowed to return by Silverbridge, and to take what was needed from Miss Prettyman. Who can tell of the mending and patching, of the weary wearing midnight hours of needlework which were accomplished before the poor girl went, so that she might not reach her friend's house in actual rags?

He knew her to be heartless; but even heartless people have hearts which can be touched and almost broken by certain sorrows.

She was like a dog or a child, and was unable not to be true. Lizzie was longing for a little mock sympathy

Blessed are the peace-makers,' miss, 'for they shall be called the children of God.

But John Morton would marry her tomorrow if he were well,—in spite of all her ill usage! Of course, he would die, and so she would again be overwhelmed;—but yet she would go and see him. As she determined to do so, there was something even in her hard callous heart softer than the love of money, and more human than the dream of an advantageous settlement in life.

But God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Hate is difficult and expensive, and between individuals soon gives place to love.

They don't do much good; — do they? It's better to take people as you find 'em, and then make the best of 'em. They're a queer lot; — ain't they, — the sort of people one meets about in the world?

Law!" said Bunce, with all the scorn he knew how to command— "law! Did ye ever know a poor man yet was the better for law, or for a lawyer? Will Mr Finney ever be as good to you, Job, as that man has been? Will he see to you when you're sick, and comfort you when you're wretched? Will he—

And I hope you will be happy — and make others happy." "I hope I shall," said she. "But always think most about the latter, my dear. Think about the happiness of those around you, and your own will come without thinking. You understand that; do you not?

have an idea that people ought to be happy if it be only for the sake of their neighbours.

People are not dull to me, if they are real. I pity that poor lady. She is proud of her blood and yet not ashamed of her poverty.

CHAPTER XVI MR. GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY

It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor.

he has not been false to me. He has always meant what he has said, when he was saying it. But he is weak and blind, and flies like a moth to the candle; one pities the poor moth, and would save him a stump of his wing if it be possible.

hope they will be kind to you," said Paul. "No; — but I will be kind to them. I have conquered others by being kind, but I have never had much kindness myself. Did I not conquer you, sir, by being gentle and gracious to you? Ah

If I were to die, your friends would advise you not to grieve; but they would think you very unfeeling if you did not.

I hate justice," said Phineas. "I know that justice would condemn me. But love and friendship know nothing of justice. The value of love is that it overlooks faults, and forgives even crimes.