Quotes About Compassion

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

To bad as well as good, to all, A generous man compassion shows; On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

it can be tempting to hoard knowledge, to use it as a way to gain advantage over others. But if we seek to serve our fellow man, we must spread the things we learn as far and wide as possible. To empower the downtrodden, we must put knowledge in their hands.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

The scariest thing about people like Terrence and my parents is not that they can be cruel. It's that they can be kind too.

I'm sorry for what happened to your family and your people, but why must we be punished?

I can imagine that there's a lot of hate right now. If it ends up turning people against each other then I'm petrified; I'm sickened to think that we will allow those murderers to end up winning.

I'm sixty-seven years old. And, dear, in my sixty-seven years I've never let politics tell me how to treat people.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

empathy does more to your conscience than a news report

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart.

People don't have to be perfect for you to love them," he said. "You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes you love them because they aren't perfect. You love them for their imperfections . . .

The avidity with which we thieve and kill and ruin one another! The flesh is undeserving of the souls with