Quotes About Compassion

Societatea are un caracter despotic; e în stare s? refuze cuiva cea mai elementar? dreptate cât timp este cerut? cu prea mare îndârjire, ca un drept; dar aproape la fel de des acord? mai mult decât dreptate - aÈ™a cum le place despoÈ›ilor - când se face apel la generozitatea ei.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and a quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

Lost as my own soul is, I would still do what I may die other human souls!

But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself.

Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!

She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanise and make her capable of sympathy.

the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own!

There he dwelt among poverty-stricken wretches, sinners, and forlorn good people, Irish, and whomsoever else were neediest.

She seeks to place herself above the sympathies of our common nature, which envelopes all human souls. See if that nature do not assert its claim over her in some mode that shall bring her level with the lowest!

The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.

She was willing to put herself out for others, but when it was just for her, it hardly mattered.

But I can tell you this: if you'd been the one in this fix, I'd have done the same for you.

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione. Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni. Vuoi dire che nessuno riesce più a fermarti? Sì. A meno che non si vada a sbattere contro qualcosa

What would love do now?

Forgiveness of self is all forgivenesses starts

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

The way I see it, it's got nothing to do with all of that. It has to do with love...A person don't got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby-- wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul. --Diego

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Please what? the teacher thinks. Please break the law? Please put myself and the school at risk? But, no, that's not it at all. What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

and I realize that this is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

Grief is not an excuse for depravity.