Quotes About Compassion

We had risen to go, but there was something in the woman's voice which arrested Holmes's attention. He turned swiftly upon her. Your life is not your own, he said. Keep your hands off it. What use is it to anyone? How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel. I don't know sir I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

I wasn't thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he'd taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

Ali svaki put kad osjetim potrebu da se podsjetim na to kako na svijetu postoji ljepota i dobrota, mislit ?u na tebe.

No le estaba dando gracias por la moneda, ni tampoco por la molestia que se había tomado al detenerse a ayudarme. Le estaba dando las gracias por... bueno, por algo que no estoy segura de poder explicar ni tan siquiera ahora. Por mostrarme que en el mundo se puede encontrar algo más que crueldad, supongo.

Ninguno encontramos en este mundo el cariño que deberíamos.

Of course I was happy to sit and listen, but I understood perfectly well that the Chairman wasn't telling these things to me because he wanted me to know them. He was clearing them from his mind, just like draining water from a bucket. So I listened closely not to his words, but to the tone of his voice; because in the same way that sound rises as a bucket is emptied, I could hear the Chairman's voice softening as he spoke.

Mijn liefde leefde, niet omdat ik WERD bemind, maaar omdat ik zelf liefhad!

Het verschil tussen vriendschap en liefde is dat vriendschap afwezigheid verdraagt.

The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence

A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.

He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it—an abstract and geometric love.

How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it?

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Mother: What more can we be? Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.