Quotes About Compassion

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time. CHAPTER VIII.

my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time.

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.

I didn't like being his dear friend, but I went on listening to him. Giulio/Giulia

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El verdadero amor quiere el bien del amado (Umberto Eco)

Basit insanlar her zaman herkes için bedel öder…

Los franciscanos piden la pobreza para sí mismos, pero nunca la han pedido para los otros. No

Perdona siempre a tu enemigo. No hay nada que le enfurezca más»)

Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.

They were trying to save their souls—and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?

Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When

Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.

Don't complain about our coffee; someday you may be old and weak yourself.

Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He

Jesse sounded quite fierce, but basically he was a kind-hearted man who would and frequently did give his last franc to a comrade in distress. What he wanted was a just world, and the preliminary to this was for the rich to get off the backs of the poor. Since dialectical materialism demonstrated that they wouldn't, the thing to do was to throw them off.

find out how to save the world from hatreds and delusions which are the root of wars.

He smiled gently, being sorry for her. "Mother dear, I am one of those unlucky people who have to stand in the middle and get the brickbats from both sides. I see the good in both and I see the evil. But if you point that out the fanatics on both sides want to kill you.