Quotes About Compassion

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

It's nice to be important , but more important ot be nice.

There's no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.

Oh! Je sais bien que la compassion d'autrui soulage un moment, je ne la méprise point. Mais elle ne désalèere pas, elle s'écoule dans l'âme comme a travers un crible. Et quand notre souffrance passe de pitié en pitié, ainsi que de bouche en bouche, il me semble que nous ne pouvons plus la respecter, ni l'aimer...

Even from the Cross, when Our Lord in His agony found the perfection of His Sacred Humanity—even then He did not own Himself a victim of injustice: They know not what they do.

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

È terribile pensare che siamo tutti uomini, tutti destinati, chi più chi meno, a portare il nostro fardello sotto un cielo sconosciuto, e che non vogliamo fare il minimo sforzo per capirci a vicenda.

The tendency toward empathy is strongest between the ages of seven and twelve.

Researchers believe that the conscious cultivation of empathy, including through the reading of novels (see S. Keen), will make communication far easier and will save us from future world cataclysms. —The Journal of Community and Cortex

Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it

They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it by action, not preaching. That word was love.

She hopped onto his knees to comfort him.

My creatures, each in its own way, abused me, reviled me, slandered me and condemned me out of hand for being five minutes late with their food.

Then I got out of bed to have a look and I found that poor rose, crushed in the middle of them, being harried to death. I got him out and put him by himself and gave him half an aspirin. Aspirin is so good for roses. Drachma pieces for the chrysanthemums, aspirin for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

To give is to receive...

I am beginning to see that I don't have to judge or interpret the motives and behaviors of others. There is no need to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad, who should be blamed and who punished. I find it truly is "safe" to surrender the script written by me and trust in God's script.

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

it will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal. Forgiveness is our single function and the way to achieve our goal of peace of mind. Through forgiveness, we can learn not to judge others and to see everyone, including ourselves, as guiltless.