Quotes About Compassion

A hug is like a bandage to a hurting wound.

Never wait 'til tomorrow to hug someone you can hug today, Because when you give one, you get one right back your way.

Have you hugged someone your appreciation today?

Have you hugged yourself today?

Giggle until you cry Hug without asking why

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The greatest obscenity is man's inhumanity to man.

The geometry of human progress is an expanding circle of compassion. Every advance in thinking has shown that our relationships extend further than we thought.

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang—or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang.

The wonderful patience of the trail... comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of speech and kindly.

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

As some one has said, they do everything for the poor except get off their backs

kelimelerin diliyle de?il, sevginin diliyle vermi?ti cevab?n?.

I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.

Mercanti della carità, andate ad imparare dai poveri, perché solo i poveri sono caritatevoli. Loro non danno né negano dal loro sovrappiù, perché di sovrappiù non ne hanno. Loro danno, non negano mai [...]. Dare un osso al cane non è carità. Carità è spartire l'osso col cane avendo fame quanto lui.

Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él

Suç hakikaten de hastal???n ta kendisi. Suçlu, yani haks?z davranan kiÅŸi, hastad?r ve bu yüzden gerektiÄŸince tedavi edilmelidir ki hastal???ndan kurtulabilsin.

Intelligence and compassion are the heart of what it means to be human. Help others where you can. That is clear enough. But a Creator may well want us to open our eyes, as well. If there is a judgment, God may not be particularly interested in how many hymns we sang or what prayers we memorized. I suspect He may instead look at us and say, "I gave you a brain, and you never used it. I gave you the stars, and you never looked." —Marcia Tolbert, Centauri Days, 3111 C.E.

when people are feeling good about themselves, they begin to feel good about others as well.

After witnessing a young Indian man throwing a popped grain of some sort at a caged, humiliated mountain lion) That was it. I grabbed his throat and sank my thumb and middle finger into the joint behind his Adam's apple. I did not want to kill him, though, not even hurt him. I just wanted to terrify him so badly that he would never, ever, ever, ever again even presume to think of throwing something at that lion.

A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal.

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they set were impossibly high, still, I could rejoice that such courage and compassion existed in the world. I could hope and aspire.