Quotes About Compassion

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.

To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.

Yaad rakho murdam azaari bohat hi buri cheez hai. Is ki bakhshish kahin nahi hai

If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, "Love is the only rational act.

Be compassionate, Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place. He took a breath, then added his mantra: Love each other or die.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things -he sighed- these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Love is the only rational act.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.