Quotes About Compassion

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature in his character which is so much worse than the merely animal.

We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices.

To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.

The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged dignity, but, on the contrary, to regard him as an object of pity.

Ninguém é realmente digno de inveja, e tantos são dignos de lástima!

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!

Lo que la lluvia es para el fuego, eso es la lástima para la ira.

For boundless compassion for all living beings is the firmest and most certain guarantee of moral good conduct and requires no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will certainly injure no one, infringe on no one, do no one harm, rather, forbear everyone, forgive everyone, help everyone as much as he can, and all his actions will carry the imprint of justice and loving kindness.

Compassion is the most likely alleviation of the countless and multifarious sufferings with which our life is beset and which no one completely escapes, and at the same time compassion is the counterbalance to the burning egoism that fills all beings and often develops into malice

Reason recognized from this the fact that, both to lessen the suffering spread among everyone and to distribute it as uniformly as possible, the best and only means is to spare everyone the pain of suffering wrong by having everyone renounce the enjoyment attainable by wrongdoing.

Ludzie zawsze s? gotowi do ?miechu, a ci, co si? ?miej?, s? po naszej stronie.

???? is selfishness, ????? is sympathy.

It is no longer sufficient to love others as himself and to do as much for them as he would do for himself; rather, a repugnance arises in him… towards the will-to-live, towards the core and essence of that world recognized as filled with misery.

Ba?kas?n?n mutlu olmas? seni rahats?z ediyorsa asla mutlu olamazs?n. -Seneca, De ira

O maior benefício das ferrovias é o fato de elas pouparem uma existência miserável a milhões de cavalos de tiro.

La conmiseración con los animales está íntimamente unida a la bondad de carácter de tal suerte, que se puede afirmar de seguro que quien es cruel con los animales no puede ser buena persona

Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.

What we do to the animals is perhaps their hell

La compasión por los animales está íntimamente asociada con la bondad del carácter y puede ser afirmado que el que es cruel con los animales no puede ser un buen hombre.

At home there were cards and calls from friends and family. I heard from people I had not seen in years and was surprised they even knew I had cancer. These messages in particular gave me what I think ill people need most, a sense that many others, more than you can think of, care deeply that you live.

Stories have to repair the damage that illness has done to the ill person's sense of where she is in life, and where she may be going. Stories are a way of redrawing maps and finding new destinations.

The pedagogy of suffering means that one who suffers has something to teach, just as Gail claims, and thus has something to give, as Mairs recognizes.