Quotes About Compassion

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." —

Selain berlaku adil, marilah kita juga bersifat pemaaf.

fasting, prayer and almsgiving

You are a human being now, not like them [the animals].

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

It's fairly easy to hate a racial or ethnic group in the abstract, but it's a different story when you start dealing with individuals.

We cannibals must help these Christians.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.

But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.