Quotes About Compassion

What has to happen to us before we understand that we have to take good care of everything we have, of every tree in our boundless forests, every little stream that isn't even marked on the maps, every village with only five households, every soldier drafted into the army, every man in the street toiling under his dreary daily burden? What will it take to change us?

THERE'S A SIMPLE way to understand what a blind man feels in this life: close your eyes and try to do something. Something ordinary, not difficult. Something you normally do anyway 'without looking' – take a spoon out of a drawer in a table, light a cigarette, put a CD in a music centre. It only takes five minutes at the most to understand everything and know that you'll never forget it.

But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher

I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

Por tanto, si tu hermano peca contra ti, ve y repréndele estando tú y él solos; si te oyere, has ganado a tu hermano" (Mateo 18:15 RV1960).

Así que, por cierto es ya una falta en vosotros que tengáis pleitos entre vosotros mismos. ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el agravio? ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el ser defraudados?" (1 de Corintios 6:7 RV1960).

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

You do not hate anyone you are not capable of loving. Remember that.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

There is one Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick...'Thou shalt not kill.' That is clear enough...'Thou shalt not kill' says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him.

Look at anybody you admire — from Mother Teresa to Nelson Mandela — and you'll find that their life was filled with great pain. You'll also see that they met the deep challenge of that pain with love. In so doing, they found the call that defined their lives.

And though it would not be long before even the daft Mr. Collins would discover her condition, and be forced to behead her, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and her ever deepening lust for tender morsels of savory brains had not yet lost their charm.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

He had decided long before that he was going to loathe her. It was inconvenient therefore that she was kind.

for he saw in Elizabeth's eyes a kind of darkness; a kind of absence-as if her soul had taken leave, so that compassion and warmth could not interfere.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Qualunque cosa sia non puo essere cosi male. L'amore è difficile.

I vowed to be more generous in our relationship, to consider my mother as more than the sum of her bad decisions.

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.

I know, Sensei. There are others who suffer more than I. But it's not the size of the problem that makes the difference.