Quotes About Compassion

How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.

Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.

How others behave toward you should not affect your behavior toward them. You must not answer arrogance with arrogance. You must not answer sarcasm with sarcasm. You must not answer contempt with contempt. No matter how others behave toward you, always respond with warm love and a caring heart.

Don't harm yourself or others by unnecessarily exaggerating errors you or others made. Instead, exaggerate and praise the smallest good deed, whether it's yours or another's. Then people will overlook your errors and recognize your smallest good deed.

Behave pridefully before no one, show anger to no one, scold no one, restrict no one, resent no one, badmouth no one, hate no one, sadden no one, criticize no one, hurt no one, discriminate against no one, betray no one, be jealous of no one, forgive everyone—this is how we should always hope to be.

You are not lonely because you are alone. Many are lonely amid their families and friends, or even with their beloved. Loneliness is a state in which one's heart is not fulfilled. Even when they live alone, those who somehow contribute to others harbor no loneliness in their hearts. If you don't want to be lonesome, be of service to others—whatever that service might be.

The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.

We were alone and starved for love. Kids that lived in a world full of hate.

Those who do not understand true pain, can never understand true peace.

I'll now start knowing your pain and feelings too, Naruto.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred

Il faut avoir connu la vraie souffrance pour desirer la paix

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity

Before Medicaid and Medicare existed, writes the American politician and former doctor Ron Paul, 'every physician understood that he or she had a responsibility towards the less fortunate, and free medical care for the poor was the norm'.

Smith went one step further, and suggested that morality emerged unbidden and unplanned from a peculiar feature of human nature: sympathy.

we all enjoy making other people happy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, but the pleasure of seeing it.

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Starr recognizes the importance of Julian's message reaching the entire world, rather than being hoarded by religionists of one stripe, when she remarks that Julian's work is "for the sake of all spiritual seekers everywhere."13

God loves all that he has created. And so anyone who, in loving God, loves all his fellow creatures loves all that is.

All are called to be prophets, which is to interfere with injustice.

Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.

If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God's kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.