Quotes About Compassion

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity as well.

In all groups and assemblies of men there are good and there are bad men. It is unprofitable to generalize. There are good Russians and bad Russians just as there are good Germans and bad Germans and good Englishmen and bad Englishmen. I mean that the distribution of what Reverend Mother Auxilia would call the grace of God cannot be charted geographically.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit.

Generosity overpowers greed.

First with the head and then with the heart.

A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.

When man is brutalized in such a place like this, he is looking for small signs. The smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.

First with the head then with the heart.

Alguns pais, especialmente os que têm muitos filhos de diferentes esposas podem rejeitar um mau filho, um amo pode rejeitar um criado perverso, uma esposa pode chegar ao ponto de abandonar um mau marido, mas uma mãe nunca, nunca pode rejeitar seu filho. Se ele for condenado, ela será condenada ao lado dele.

He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

If you think he's supposed to be different from what he is, you don't love him. In that moment you love who he's going to be when you're through manipulating him. He is a throwaway until he matches your image of him.

I don't know what's best for me or you or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or on anyone else. I don't want to change you or improve you or convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with now.

The receiving is the giving. It's the most genuine thing you can give back. That's what they wanted to give you in the first place.

Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

And that goes not only for mothers but for every human being you haven't forgiven yet. Every human being, every cat, dog, tree, thing—to be separate from anyone or anything goes against your heart. The only time those people or things are not okay is when you believe they're not.

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside you can hurt you. That's not possible. Only when you believe a story about them can you be hurt. So you're the one who's hurting yourself. This is very good news, because it means that you don't have to get someone else to stop hurting you or to change in any way. You're the one who can stop hurting you. You're the only one.

Atheist, agnostic, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan—we all have one thing in common: we want happiness and peace.

I wasn't always able to live the advice that I so generously held out for others to live. When I realized this, I found myself on equal ground with the people I had judged. I saw that my philosophy wasn't so easy for any of us to live. I saw that we're all doing the best we can.