Quotes About Compassion

The challenges we face are far too big to be solved by a few chosen people. It's all of our jobs to work for each other now. To believe in our own efficacy to help our communities. Not to solve the problems of the world, but to help the people around us in any and every way we can. That feels right to me.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Make lunch, not war.

Because those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Angels in disguise are flitting about everywhere, but hospice workers are the pure light of angels unmasked.

Behind the wheel is one of the least likely places to have our faith in humanity restored.

Hanging my head and my heart with it, that you sorrowed alone...

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

He who forgives ends the quarrel.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Don't let your hatred gossip.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

If you want to be happy, be kind to others.

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Burn, burn all the books which teach hatred! Exalt labor and love! Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing under foot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those blood ambitions of nationalism and imperialism which have crushed their brothers.