Quotes About Compassion

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Antes de juzgar a una persona, camina durante tres lunas con sus mocasines.

You always do that, you know," Alec said. I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?" "Bite their heads off first." I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. If you could choose, would you rather be eaten alive starting at your feet or would you want it to be over quickly?

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The World will be a better place when everybody's beige.

Amazing how a little thing like that can cause a misunderstanding. Everyone makes mistakes, Marvin. Don't feel bad.

If we attempt nothing more than a rigid negative control of the waves of desire, without raising waves of love, compassion and devotion to oppose them, then the result may be even more tragic.

that those who have nothing are taken care of by the Divine.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

The ability to ascribe thoughts to others, thoughts that might differ from our own, is a sophisticated cognitive skill, known as "theory of mind.

This is the gift great souls leave us when they die. They enlarge our hearts. They leave us a greater capacity for love.

But perhaps, in a world "older and more complete" than ours, there is a love that does not demand a reciprocal debt of need.

The word compassion means "with suffering." To have compassion is to willingly join in suffering—to show those you love that you will not let them suffer

Our kind has surely accomplished brilliant feats during our short time on this earth as a species. But before we poison, pollute, degrade and murder every other creature on the planet, we must learn to limit our numbers and our greed. This is the lesson that humans so desperately need to learn at this turning point in human history.

A far worse mistake than misreading an animal's emotions is to assume the animal hasn't any emotions at all.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.

most of my teachers have been animals. What have animals taught me about life? How to be a good creature.

Normally a prolonged stare from a gorilla is a threat. But Digit's gaze bore no aggression. He seemed to say: I know. Dian would later write that she believed Digit understood she was sick.

emotions aren't confined to humans. A far worse mistake than misreading an animal's emotions is to assume the animal hasn't any emotions at all.

His coming to you, and your loving him, was a counterbalance, in a way, to the world's mistreatment of pigs

Wilson has to leave early. He got the call earlier this morning: there is a bed for his wife in a nearby hospice. If she is going to take it, she must move today. The doctors still don't understand what is wrong with her, only that her self and her strength are ebbing away, and there seems no stopping it. Wilson's afternoon will be spent getting his wife, with whom he's traveled the world, ready for her final journey.

Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—" can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once you find the right way to work with an animal, be it an octopus or an anaconda, together, you can accomplish what even Saint Francis might have considered a miracle.

Isn't this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?