Quotes About Compassion

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

L'amore è amore, in qualunque modo si manifesti. Lui stesso aveva avuto modo di constatare come coppie omosessuali avessero vissuto delle storie con una delicatezza di sentimenti riscontrabile in altre più convenzionali.

Un borracho busca bajo un farol la llave que ha perdido: un transeúnte caritativo se ofrece para ayudar al pobre achispado a encontrar la llave perdida. Al cabo de un buen rato de buscar sin éxito alguno la llave bajo el farol, el señor compasivo, algo fastidiado, dirigiéndose al borracho le pregunta: "Pero, ¿está usted seguro de haberla perdido aquí?" Y el otro replica: "No, pero es que donde la he perdido está muy oscuro para buscarla"» (Nardone 1988, p. 154).

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

but I beseech you, as most I may, that you inflict not on her those pangs which you inflicted whilere on her who was sometime yours; for methinketh she might scarce avail to endure them, both because she is younger and because she hath been delicately reared, whereas the other had been in continual fatigues from a little child.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Umana cosa è l'aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra' quali, se alcuno mai n'ebbe bisogno, o gli fu caro, o già ne ricevette piacere, io son uno di quegli.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Essere felici è già una bella cosa ma fare felici gli altri col fatto di essere felici noi è la cosa più bella del mondo.

perché coi disgraziati succede così, che una spina scaccia l'altra, e il Signore non vuole ficcarcele tutte in una volta, perché si morirebbe di crepacuore.

Nessuna sensazione è più angosciosa della pietà che un uomo prova di sé stesso.

Nella vita" mi disse tornando a leggere il giornale "il valore della gente non lo si misura né con la stadera né col metro">>.

Try to distinguish ignorance from malice. And keep your animus for malice.

When unbalanced, the individual gives offence and takes offence and thus adds negativity to the world. When balanced, the individual takes love and gives love and adds love and light to the world.

Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

Forgiveness is never not possible.

If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.

on the whole the US personnel soon felt considerably more sympathy for the Germans than for their victims.

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

The family is the country of the heart.