Quotes About Compassion

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

We are made kind by being kind.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.