Quotes About Compassion

Before you laugh at someone's misfortune, have a moment to walk in their shoes. Now, you've LOL-ed and you have their shoes.

She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.

you could help people most by not giving them the burden of your heart.

The ultimate purpose of Zen," I remembered the röshi telling me, "is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

Suffering is the central fact of life, from his Buddhist viewpoint; it's what we do with it that defines our lives.

It wasn't the country, the girl, the teacher who let us down; it was our judgment, and whatever led us to expect too much of the country, the girl or the teacher in the first place. That was why it became harder and harder to condemn anyone: wouldn't God himself, faced with a wounded murderer, feel somewhat at a loss?

OH, YO JOVENCITO! Yo quería ser mi madre que me amaba, pero no quería amargarme a mí mismo. Y entonces fingía ser un joven pobre. No podía convencerme de que también en un burgués hubiera algo para amar: aquello que amaba mi madre en mí, puro y despreciado. Nada ha cambiado: me veo todavía pobre y joven; y amo sólo a aquéllos como yo. Los burgueses tienen un cuerpo maldito.

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

it is clear that our very survival, even today, depends upon the acts and kindness of so many people.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

The heart follows a different kind of math: Acts of kindness and generosity increase our feeling of time affluence.

After meeting you I felt relieved": Who wouldn't want to hear this kind of comment? When we receive it, it's because we have been harmless, and our innate capacity to comfort other people, maybe heal their wounds, found no obstacle on its way. Every human being potentially has this capacity. Just our presence, if we do not judge, if we do not give advice and do not invade, can in all likelihood be beneficial for anyone who is suffering.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.

Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.