Quotes About Compassion

But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy's Loam!' 'Or anywhere,' Mrs Pargeter observed mildly.

Horror can only be borne if one ceases to think of the individual identity of those involved;

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Critically, I realised that terrorists, who I had always imagined as horned devils, could be worryingly human.

Living the human values allows us to more fully understand the underlying reasons for someone's behaviour and why that person is acting in any particular way. When you live the human values, you can see more about a situation. If someone manifests behaviour in a way which we do not expect and our lives do not have the grounding which the human values provide, we do not know what to do or how to respond.

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

Lisa Simpson is the kind of child we not only want our children to be, but also the kind of child we want all children to be.

He needed to stop being angry, he realized. It wasn't Sir John's fault that he didn't understand the war—it was impossible to understand it unless you went there and saw it and heard it and smelt it for yourself, and even that might not be enough if you were just a visitor, a tourist able to return home when you felt you'd had enough…

Arthur said: "A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.

Justicia, no venganza

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is simulation of strength.

One in a hundred people today suffer from schizophrenia: Nearly all of them, if treated with compassion and good chemistry, can have some kind of dignified life, of a kind that was denied, for much of his time, to Doctor Minor. Except, of course, that Minor had hid dictionary work.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

What do you believe in ? People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion

What a relief! It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Am înv??at, de asemenea, c? pentru a p?trunde taina lucrurilor trebuie, înainte de toate, s? te d?ruieÈ™ti lor.

As épocas que mais amaram as mulheres (...) foram as épocas em que (...) os homens encararam as mulheres como semelhantes.

One is not the neighbor of anyone; one makes the other a neighbor by making oneself his neighbor through an act

Su desnudez ya no me incomodaba: ya no se trataba de mi madre sino de un pobre cuerpo atormentado.

A mi alrededor se interrogaban sobre la suerte que amenazaba a millones de hombres, era también mi suerte; y a mí sólo me importaba una sonrisa, una sonrisa que no detendría las bombas atómicas, que no podía nada contra nada, ni por nadie; pero me ocultaba todo.

T]here is no way to measure the happiness of others, and it is always easy to call a situation that one would like to impose on others happy...

Souvent, quand les malades souffraient un long martyre, je m'étais indignée de l'inertie de leurs proches. [...] Je me demandais comment on s'arrange pour survivre quand quelqu'un de cher vous a crié en vain : Pitié !