Quotes About Compassion

Pity is a poison. -Kunti

I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

God forgave. There was infinite mercy in Heaven; this she believed. There had to be, when there was so little mercy on earth.

We want to hurt others but don't want to be hurt in return

You cannot develop a country by oppressing the poor of the poorest

Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Look, don't kill that fly! It is making a prayer to you By rubbing its hands and feet

We filled in the space but we were never chosen it did hurt but at least we helped them feel okay.We learnt to give love without any expectation it doesn't hurt that way.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.

There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?

Self harm or suicide is never the answer. Don't let the haters win.