Quotes About Compassion

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

Casi todas las heridas sanan con cariño, Irina. Tienes que amarte a ti y amarme a mí.

So much hatred, so much cruelty . . . I don't understand,' said Victor. His mouth was dry and the ords stuck in his throat. 'We can all turn into savages if we're given a rifle and an order,' said another prisoner who had come over to them.

Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...

We always think things like that only happen elsewhere, said Miguel, until they happen to us too.

Hijo mío, la Santa Madre Iglesia está a la derecha, pero Jesucristo siempre estuvo a la izquierda

el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma.

nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

No creas que eres alguien especial o mejor que los otros, acuérdate de que al clavo más prominente le cae el martillazo».

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.

Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia»

no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

Cómo puedes defender este sistema de vida= !Mira la pobreza! ¿Te gustaría vivir así? -No, Jaguar, pero tampoco me gustaría tener más de lo que se necesita - replicó ella

Piensa que los demás tienen más miedo que tú.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As

Em toda uma vida de convivência com a miséria e a dor, não se lhe tinha endurecido a alma, mas, pelo contrário, era cada vez mais vulnerável à piedade.

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Souls in pain know no borders.

Durante un interminable momento él las observó inmóvil hasta comprenderlo todo, amor, y verla atada con las correas sobre la parrilla eléctrica, y entonces pudieron abrazarse y llorar, hambrientos de pactos y de confidencias, de palabras prohibidas, de promesas de mañana, compartiendo, por fin, el más recóndito secreto

shared pain is more bearable.

My Nini wanted to get another dog, as much like Daisy as possible, but my Popo said that it was not a question of replacing her, but of trying to live without her. "I can't, Popo. I loved her so much!" I sobbed inconsolably. "That affection is inside you, Maya, not in Daisy. You can give it to other animals, and what's left over you can give to me