Quotes About Compassion

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past.

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.

One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško ?ovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

To love is to communicate, and you can communicate only in truth. Speak the truth, and speak it with love.

When with meaning we walk - we go not where comfort resides, but where truth and love show in abundance.

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone, no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate.

We are here to love. Everything else is distraction.