Quotes About Compassion

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.

Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.

Animals do not 'give' their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Compassion is not just an emotion; it is a feeling that triggers a response. Compassion marries empathy and action. It also requires respect for those who will come after us—a commitment to stewardship.

Lawrence Meredith

Jonah's "sin," as noted above, was that he dared to limit God's definition of what is holy to his own definition of what is holy. He assumed that God had no ability to love beyond the boundaries of Jonah's love.

We cried together. And the sky wept with us.

your humanity is the spiritual path itself.

Lonely people have cruel thoughts.

the feeling good we experience when we help others is not mainly about enhanced self-esteem. It reflects the satisfaction that comes from affirming we are social animals who need each other. Life is not all about me. It is about us. It is about expressing our uniqueness in the context of relationship with others.

In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

but Surge was not mad, had never been completely drained of his compassion and he could never forget, nor could he since then look upon the helpless and the innocent with anything less than outrage and a desire for justice.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: On the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself, an ideal end. Aiming thus, at something else, they find happiness, by the way.