Quotes About Compassion

I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time.

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.

LEBEAU: How about some solidarity with Gypsies? Just because they don't work nine to five? WAITER—a small man, middle-aged, still wearing his apron: I know this one. I've made him go away a hundred times. He and his wife stand outside the café with a baby, and they beg. It's not even their baby. LEBEAU: So what? They've still got a little imagination.

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 why he died.

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

People who help others on a regular basis are ten times more likely to be healthy than people who do not.

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

Doing good induces others to reciprocate.

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

Doing good does us good.

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

Giving and empathy provide us with opportunities to nurture our innate goodness.

By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.

Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Compassion is the basis of all morality