Quotes About Compassion

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Little touches can make a big difference.

Today's Wisdom: Be it health or be it leisure, Be it skill we have to give, Still in spending it for others Christians only really live. Not in having or receiving, But in giving, there is bliss; He who has no other pleasure Ever may rejoice in this. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well.

Gracious living is felt whether it is created in small or big ways.

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

This is your pain,' she said. 'You must bear witness.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Why, just what the Quaker said to the Duchess of Buckingham, when he found her, two years after her husband's death, in a darkened room, hung with black, 'What, friend, hast thou not forgiven God Almighty yet?

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence A small unkindness is a great offence.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, / Then my life will not have been in vain.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

A person or family can never bear the burden of whole nation's sins.

Sometimes I feel how foolish were the people who made weapons, when behavior of people can kill a person from inside out.

Sweetness which comes from benefiting someone is more delolicious than honey and butter.

Men might be better if we better deemed Of them. The worst way to improve the world Is to condemn it.

If you would only look for the God quality and not make any comparison, you would see every human being as you see me; or by looking for the Christ in every face you would bring forth that Christ, or God quality, in all.

God made all of us, Josh. We all his children. Ain't no good trying to divide us all up. I seen plenty of white folk beaten up in prison. Evil comes in all forms, all colors. Bible says so. I ain't judging nobody except on themselves. Only way to do it.

There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.