Quotes About Compassion

Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds.

suppose I could have found ways to medicate it away— but I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a "brave new world" but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

T)his 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.

Why did it all have to go so wrong? the heavy man wailed. She knelt down to him and put a hand on his shoulder. Maybe it needed to go wrong, she said softly, to bring you to this moment.

Ac? Åžeytan, ac? ÅŸu tükenmeyen yoksulluÄŸuma! Sensin ezilenlerin, sensin cüzzaml?lar?n bile Ä°çlerine dolduran Cennet tatlar?n? sevgiyle

Nu dispre?ui?i sensibilitatea nim?nui. Sensibilitatea fiec?ruia e geniul lui.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

the worst thing, he told me, is bitterness, people end up so bitter.

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

I am sick with caring.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?