Quotes About Compassion

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?

I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?

Arif expended so much energy defining himself in opposition to other people, other musical tastes, other fashions, other views, other politics, other members of his own family that he was too exhausted to know who he really was. He thought she was weak and he was strong because he rebelled and she did not. But it took strength to work hard and do your duty, and it was she who had what she wanted in this world. He didn't even know what he wanted. She felt sorry for him.

She smiled at her sister-in-law's small sad face, all her features lined up, as ever, to mourn for everything that had passed and all that would come to pass.

Will?" said Ma, looking shocked. "Am I a vulture to eat his flesh and bone? And Mr. Ackerman? I should feed on his carcass also?" Mr. Ackerman lived at number 72 and was another beneficiary of Ma's social services. Mr. Coombs, who lived in the bungalow on the corner, was especially partial to Ma's lamb biryani.

Má, please do not cry. I know I could have bought bread with it, a room for the night. I could have bought acts of love with it, but I could have never bought back the years of your life. Sorrow, even when tempered by sweat and toil into a whisper weight of gold, is still sorrow. Worthless to us both in the end, Má. Better that a stranger circles the globe with it than your youngest son.

We were forgiving each other for who we were, for how we came into this world, for how we changed or didn't change for each other.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.

It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.

Los que para con los animales son sanguinarios denuncian su naturaleza propensa a la crueldad.

Make tea, not war.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …

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

Let the characters into your mind and heart; suspend your disbelief, if such it is, about the events. Do not disapprove of something a character does before you understand why he does it—if then. Try as hard as you can to live in his world, not in yours; there, the things he does may be quite understandable. And do not judge the world as a whole until you are sure that you have "lived" in it to the extent of your ability.

The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.

It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.

She sent him out the message, "Perhaps I am getting worse day by day, but today, at any rate, I feel very ill. Do come in, then." He was greatly moved and wondered what her condition could be, because this unaccustomed warmth was alarming.

Please teach her to understand others' feelings a little! Why should I go on courting her affection if she really cannot bear it?

F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]