Quotes About Compassion

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life.

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.

It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou knowest this man's fall, but thou knowest not his wrassling.

It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

It is very questionable in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

What woman wants pity?... A man's sternness is to us our only pardon.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Les souffrances morales, auprès desquelles pâlissent les douleurs physiques, excitent cependant moins de pitié, parce-qu'on ne les voit point.

Esistono poi degli individui nati mercenari che non fanno alcun bene agli amici o ai parenti per il fatto che è dovuto; mentre dal fare un piacere a sconosciuti, traggono un pizzico d'amor proprio: più il cerchio dei loro affetti è vicino, meno amano; più si allarga, più diventano premurosi.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

Son muchos los que ni siquiera hacen el esfuerzo de imaginar el tesoro que duerme en el corazón de los demás.

Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

Jeder Mensch hat dieses kleine schwache Etwas, das zitternd am Boden seines Herzens liegt, und bisweilen ist es sicher besser, es hochzunehmen, sich darum zu kümmern und den Tränen freien Lauf zu lassen.