Quotes About Compassion

In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.

Se ve qué elásticos se vuelven nuestro rígidos prejuicios una vez que viene a plegarlos el amor.

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!

man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come; though they bring all Ireland and her miseries with them. For the whole world is the patrimony of the whole world; there is no telling who does not own a stone in the Great Wall of China.

the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.

Rose, you're good, you're like a sister." The mother expelled a long sigh, puffing out her cheeks. She looked from the girl to the old man. "I keep trying to fix everything. Why? It's God's world." She kissed them both. "Take care of yourselves. And…

If God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, why shouldn't we forgive? If we are faithful and just, we shall.

Amad a quienes aman, con el fin de ser amados por ellos.

Never actually having owned a dog myself, I wasn't sure what the correct procedure was. Did I offer to pay for the morning-after pill, or something? Should I insist that Braveheart marry her?

Let us suffer absurdities, for that is only to suffer one another.

In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

I'm sure you've heard people use the term, You just don't get it. Well, I figured out the 'it' is the point in life. I believe I was supposed to have been there when my father died, but it was a point in life I just didn't get.

If there's one thing the divas have shown it is that to indulge your passions fully is to know yourself completely. Only then can you treat the rest of the world--its people, its ecosystems, its politics-- with provocative wit and compassion.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

What is it that grieves you? Keep it not from me, but tell me, that we may know it together.

What we give to the poor, we lend to God.

Draw closer to me, let us once more throw our arms around one another, and find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows.

I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.