Quotes About Compassion

Teachers know that love is a vital part of education. Good teaching is infused with it. The most successful classrooms are brimming with it. Love is the reason people go into teaching -- love for a subject and love for children.

Even Philip Jones Griffiths, whose portrayal of suffering Vietnamese civilians forms perhaps the best photographic testament of the war, has said, "Your job is to record it all for history. You can't not feel involved, but you have to steel yourself and do your job, take your photographs. That's what you're there for. It's no use crying. You can't focus with tears in your eyes. It's better to do the breaking down later in the darkroom.

That made me remember why I got into this business in the first place-to protect people who couldn't protect themselves.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.

The giving of love took nothing from others.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Prosperity and comfort were joys everyone should have. But the pursuit of money for its own sake, at the expense of our self-respect, creativity, and compassionate humanity, was the worship of a false idol.

Neko? v prihodnosti se bomo znašli v situaciji, ko bomo morali sprejeti vse, kar smo v preteklosti storili drugim, in to velja tako za dobre besede in dejanja kot za ostre in ponižujo?e.

Ljubezen je topilo za najtrše srce.

Šele sedanje trpljenje zaradi krivice, ki smo jo neko? prizadeli drugim, nas pripelje do spoznanja, kako bole?e je bilo zanje takšno nepremišljeno in brezsr?no obnašanje.

and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.

If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)

The Petition Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest Your weary ones. Bless Your dying ones. Soothe Your suffering ones. Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love's sake. Amen.§