Quotes About Compassion

She is more Mother than Queen.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.