Quotes About Compassion

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time.

Cruelty became as contagious as any disease.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;until you have culrivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy

The Golden Rule means we should do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us if our positions were reversed.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.

There is one way that your personality will always attract, and this is by taking an honest interest in other people.

There are some people so lonely, they think God is lonely too-

There is only one child in the world and the child's name is all children.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights," Pearl wrote. "Though the mind has gone away, though he cannot speak or communicate with anyone, the human stuff is there, and he belongs to the human family.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

In the years after he was forced out of Vineland, Goddard drifted away from the eugenics movement. Rather than figuring out how to keep the feebleminded from having children, Goddard spent his time trying to find ways to help children, no matter their condition. "As for myself," Goddard once said, "I think I have gone over to the enemy.

God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

In this world, we should treat everyone kindly as far as it is possible, that we ourselves may be treated kindly when we need it.

También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».

He patted me vigorously on the back and laughed. "Wish him well, Carlitos," he said. "Wish him well." I was very tired. I had a strange surge of happy sadness. I told him that I came from a place where people rarely if ever wish one another well. "I know," he said. "The same thing happened to me. But I'm a warrior now and I can afford to wish him well.

Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.

Are you angry at me, don Juan? I asked when he returned. He seemed surprised at my question. No! I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Who was I, anyway, to set myself up in judgment of anyone else?

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.