Quotes About Compassion

Poor people were dying of cold, they were swelling up with hunger. The children were falling like flies. But it wasn't so terrible, because only the poor were dying. May God not punish me.

As my mother says, there's no need to show the beaten dog a stick….

As my mother says, "God is a father. He punishes with one hand and heals with the other." That's something I don't get. Why punish and then heal? You could save yourself the trouble by skipping both.

Better to wish yourself well than another ill," as my mother says.

And you have three children, bless them. "Remember your own and you'll forget the next man's," my mother says.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, Why is there so much suffering? Suzuki Roshi replied, No reason.

The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. It must be possible even for weak and pitiful creatures — like himself and this old dog — to make some contribution in their lifetime.

but what grieved him most was his inability to love these people as Christ had loved them.

His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.

But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner

chi è libero non ha bisogno di negare la libertà ad altri

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

We mourn His suffering when, instead, we should mourn the reason He suffered.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Siempre se podrá vincular amorosamente entre sí a mayor número de hombres, con la condición de que sobren otros en quienes descargar los golpes.

Wenn man einem Menschen alles verziehen hat, ist man mit ihm fertig.

Freud spunea candva referitor la religie: Intreaga afacere este atat de evident infantila, atat de departe de realitate, incat oricine cu o atitudine de simpatie si compasiune pentru omenire, va resimti o mare durere gandindu-se ca o majoritate a muritorilor, nu se va ridica niciodata deasupra acestei viziuni despre viata.

La ciencia moderna aún no ha producido un medicamento tranquilizador tan eficaz como lo son unas pocas palabras bondadosas

Un egoism puternic protejeaz? împotriva îmboln?virii, îns? trebuie, în cele din urm?, s? începi s? iubeÅŸti, pentru a nu ajunge bolnav ÅŸi trebuie s? te îmboln?veÅŸti când, ca urmare a unei frustr?ri, nu poÅ£i iubi.

Another question: why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings?

Be kind, because everyone you meet is going through a struggle.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" —Simone Weil