Quotes About Compassion

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

I leaned over, took her hands and brought them together, closing her coat. "You know damn well what I think.

The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.

Thank God for the cats, I thought, when they had the compassion to sleep next to me on the couch, or looked on curious but unfazed as I bawled. They were good companions to have in this strange new world of grief: nonverbal, affectionate, no more baffled by agony than they were by dishwashing.

Wenn auf der Erde Liebe herrschen würde, wären alle Gesetze entbehrlich.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A plot of this kind would, doubtless, satisfy the moral sense, but it would inspire neither pity nor fear; for pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves.

Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

Nadie puede trabar amistad con otro si no ha experimentado la benevolencia

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?

men and women, both straight and gay, who don't consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little old ladies and people who nod and smile to you when you meet them on the bus. Their attitude is neither patronizing nor pitying. And their message is so simple: Yes, you are a person. Yes, I like you. Yes, it's all right for you to like me too.

Oh . . . I'm prying, aren't I? Mrs. Madrigal smiled. I hope it means we're friends.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

if you can feel into both sides and articulate them, growing together happens. The solution to war is not peace but growing together.