Quotes About Compassion

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear.

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.