Quotes About Compassion

Suddenly a phrase jumps out: "…I would say be very wary of anyone telling you you're suffering for a reason…" I forget the question that this was the response to.

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

We use this comparison, even if improperly, because dogs, hyenas, or other fierce beasts never do the evil things that men do.)

In a way one is reminded of the pretty little birdhouses for the starlings set out by the tenderhearted butchers in the Auschwitz barracks.)

The sum total of pain in the world is unlimited.

If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

I once met a man of pro-football-sized proportions who saw something in my hesitation when I shook his hand that inspired him to tell me he was pained by the way small women looked at him when he passed them on the street—pained by the fear in their eyes, pained by the way they drew away—and as he told me this, tears welled up in his eyes.

My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head under and keep it there. The other kids were upstairs. The problem was about money, of course. She was afraid she wouldn't have enough for us to eat.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

May I gain no victory that harms me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are mad at each other. May I, insofar as I can, give all necessary help to my friends and to all who are in need. May I never fail a friend in trouble. -- Prayer on the Golden Rule (abridged)

Of all evils, indeed, famine is the worst, and it destroys nothing so effectively as shame. For that which under other circumstances is worthy of respect, in the midst of famine is despised. Thus women snatched the food from the very mouths of their husbands and children, from their fathers, and what was most pitiable of all, mothers from their babes. And while their dearest ones were wasting away in their arms, they were not ashamed to take away from them the last drops that supported life.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

They're a jolly lot, the lepers," said Father Liam. "People who've suffered don't have time to grumble.

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

The braver a man is - and Krok had been very brave - the less he will bully little creatures who cannot defend themselves.