Quotes About Compassion

Estoy seguro de que solidarizaba. Sobre todo cuando yo lloraba. No sabía que mis lágrimas eran de rabia, no de pena.

Comer carne de ganadería intensiva es comer humillación, angustia y dolor.

Dans leur ensemble, les humains ne veulent pas entendre parler des conditions dans lesquelles la viande est obtenue. Ils zappent la phase de l'élevage autant que celle de l'abattage. Quand ce n'est pas du déni, c'est au moins de l'évitement. Nul ne veut savoir la somme de souffrances qu'il a fallu pour produire ce fricandeau, ce boudin noir, cette escalope milanaise ou ce ris de veau. C'est comme s'ils arrivaient dans nos assiettes par une opération du Saint-Esprit.

Charles Patterson resume en una frase que triunfa y escandaliza: "Auschwitz empieza cuando un hombre ve un matadero y dice: solo son animales".

don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down.

Each of us constantly makes decisions about how to interact with other people, and each of those decisions has the potential to either harm or enhance the other person's well-being.

patients judge their experience by the way they are treated as a person, not by the way they are treated for their disease.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness.

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that's best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.