Quotes About Compassion

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, 'I have a mother.

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.

A mother isn't the person who births you; it's the person who rears you and shows you love.

There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.