Quotes About Compassion

Old people are starved of touch: no husband, no lover, no child to slip a hand into a hand, to plant sticky kisses on nose and cheek and mouth, to snuggle and fit into the curves of the body. I watched my grandmother - my mother's mother - in her last years: her hand, the skin drawn parchmentlike over the bones, stroking, stroking, the chairs, the table, the bedspread.

Then her story and the way she told it had touched his heart. That she should have tried to understand - to offer help - and been turned away so often. Oh, he would not turn her away, he would take what she had to give and count himself rich for it.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

All people are innately good and forgiving but are situationally evil and relentless

How you treat others is a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz

Of course God's forgiving and kind. It takes a supernatural being to be capable of such a thing.

It is love—friendship—that sustains us, even in the worst of times, under the worst of circumstances. Even when we have been driven mad. Even when we have killed. We still love. We are still worthy of love. We can still be loved.

et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l'attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n'est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n'est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n'est pas un ours qui danse.

and no race has a monopoly on beauty, on intelligence, on strength

There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured man, in whom I am not also murdered and humiliated.

Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.

And above all, my body as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear….

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Could you imagine a world where everyone is 'Blind'? i'm thinking we all need to try and see the world from the view of a blind man... then and only then, will the color of ones skin be completely irrelevant..

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.

We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!

Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world. Sometimes

Sometimes in life, even saints have to "hiss" to be kind. But no one needs to bite.