Quotes About Compassion

Cuando un hombre se consume por el deseo de posesiones materiales y poder personal sobre sus semejantes, y olvida que su más grande privilegio en el plano terrestre es prestar un servicio útil a los demás, crea un arma de autodestrucción.

No man can have true sympathy who has not been, in some measure at least, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," but the sorrow and grief must have passed, must have ripened into a fixed kindness and habitual calm.

The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

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

I have learned that those who meet with difficulties which seem insurmountable may, if they will do so, best overcome these difficulties by forgetting them for a time and helping others who have greater problems.

But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

love people and serve them.

You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.

Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life.

I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be reasonable if you prove willing to go beyond just verbiage. You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.

When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.

Friedrich Nietzsche got the point: Sympathy for all would be tyranny for thee, my good neighbor.

Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others, deprived of attention, or devoid of friends. The rest is largely theater.

He is not you, not a member of your family, so he has no direct emotional loss should your health experience a degradation.

We humans scorn what is not concrete. We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than by thousands of people dying elsewhere that do not make it into our dining room. The one case is a tragedy, the other a statistic.

Stay human, take as much as you can, under the condition that you give more than you take.

qué humanista no desea minimizar la discrepancia entre los seres humanos?

so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.

Thou shalt not become antifragile at the expense of others.

Everything in religious law comes down to the refinements, applications, and interpretations of the Golden Rule, "Don't do unto others what you don't want them to do to you." This we saw was the logic behind Hammurabi's rule.

Just as you should treat others in the way you'd like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.