Quotes About Compassion

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.