Quotes About Compassion

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted, this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.