Quotes About Compassion

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

You will find as you look upon your life that the moments that you truely live are the moments you have done things in the spirit of love

You know the meaning of the word gentleman. It means a gentle man—a man who does things gently, with love. That is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else. Love doth not behave itself unseemly.

Courtesy is Love in little things.

Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

those whose indigent circumstances make such an eleemosynary abode convenient to them, and who are therefore less welcome to a great man's table because they stand in need of it.

men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections, or attempting to amend them.

I hope my friends will pardon me when I declare, I know none of them without a fault;

There is, perhaps, no surer mark of folly, than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love.

I don't think I pity her. She doesn't strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don't know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don't insist upon that. It's her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

There is no generosity without sacrifice.

What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Ada tiga hal penting dalam hidup ini. Pertama adalah kebaikan hati. Kedua, kebaikan hati. Ketiga, kebaikan hati juga.

Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.

Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a certain length -- that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love.

There's no generosity without some sacrifice.

I'm taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.

the high brutality of good intentions ...

E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! [...] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.

Do you imagine I can see you suffer and not say a word?

There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings.

I know how you suffer, and that's why I'm here.