Quotes About Compassion

Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14).

Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

La alegría compartida es una doble alegría. El dolor compartido es medio dolor. PROVERBIO SUECO

Una relación amorosa es aquella en que el ser querido es libre de ser él mismo. De reír conmigo, pero nunca de mí. A llorar conmigo, pero nunca por mí. Amar la vida, amarse a sí mismo y amar al ser amado. Tal relación se basa en la libertad y nunca puede crecer en un corazón celoso. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA, ESCRITOR

the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before.

they do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

There is a point you reach, I mean, when you are just something bad that happened to someone else.

The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King Jr

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism." - Steven Biko

It is tough to be forgiven because when one has been forgiven, it is hard to look down one's arrogant nose at anybody else. I'm

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.

If you help others, you will be helped

T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't do.

I may not have the capacity to love everyone, but I do have the capacity to act as if I do and run my business accordingly." —Agnes Golden

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.

As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart.