Quotes About Compassion

Only a miracle can save us from such whirlpools. This miracle has happened, even countless times, when a man stepped out of the lifeless numbers to extend a helping hand to others.

En toda amistad y en todo amor nos mostramos crueles, le robamos algo al mundo.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Ci sono poveri per i quali il ricco non è un'aspirazione. Ci sono poveri, in sostanze e in spirito, renitenti alla leva. Ero ostile a quel modo di istigare uno a sopravanzare all'altro, per temperamento non per convinzione. Il male che mi insegnavi a riconoscere, io lo vedevo causato dalle persone. Mi sorvegliavo per non procurarlo, perché anche un rossore risparmiato a un altro fa parte delle proprie responsabilità.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

World Peace Prayer movement.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

How could he have treated me so, he who congratulated himself on his belief that I was his equal? I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those who were there to be saved, and those did the saving.

The dead have no compassion for the living.

You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. xxx You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering. No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those were there to be saved, and those who did the saving.

Never be indiferent to injustice.

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

I have many gay friends. We have talked at great length and in depth about homosexuality, and to anyone who thinks that being gay is a choice, I want to go on record as saying that they couldn't be more wrong. No one wakes up one morning, at age 12 or 19 or 30, looks in the mirror, and says, "Yes, I think I'll be gay." Just as no one decides to be straight.

Someone will care if you just give 'em a chance. There's always people who need you as much as you need them. Don't you forget that. All you got to do is find 'em. And when you do, you find you're happier carin' about someone else than just about yourself all the time.

What feels like love, is—and what feels like hate is not love.