Quotes About Compassion

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

And I don't think you're helpless. But it's okay to let someone help you once in a while.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them--patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.

Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry or lift the fallen. Mercy is left entirely to us.

As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as God, the religious seeker must set aside any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.

Why shouldn't our "great chain of being" include the other creatures with which we have shared the planet, the creatures we have martyred in service to us or driven out of their homes to make way for our expansion?

The doctor's detachment is not a defense against excessive empathy, but a "downright negative" emotional stance

If a man's been beat, and his woman's been raped, by any man, white or black or purple, you think that man's going to see God's face the way the man who wronged him tells him it is? God finds all sorts of ways to speak to those that need Him, Ben. He's a man with a sword, to those that need a rod and staff to comfort them, whether that man's called Ogu or St. James. He's the man with the keys in his hand to those that're in chains and seeking a way through the door to heaven.

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Love weighs nothing.

nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.