Quotes About Compassion

Books taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive. – James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924

I know that when certain powerful and blatant enemies of black people are shoveled, at last, into the ground I may feel a certain pity that they spent their lives so badly, but I certainly do not mourn their passing, nor, when I hear that they are ailing, do I pray for their recovery.

I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly, is that they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism. This means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority. Vile as I am, states one of the characters in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, I don't believe in the wagons that bring bread to humanity. For the wagons that bring bread to humanity, may coldly exclude a considerable part of humanity from enjoying what is brought.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

We must take our friends as they are.

In building his company and living his life, Hewlett adhered to a simple motto that he oft repeated: "Never stifle a generous impulse.

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

Like Villa, I believed that even though some men did not deserve to go on living, they still deserved to be remembered at their best.

she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]

God suffers with you!

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

It's only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.

I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.

Where do the interests of the Christians lie?" "On the side of peace. Christianity is a religion, Sire, not a political ideology.

After all those horrors at Changi, you don't detest them?" After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. "I don't detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I'm alive.

Il mio migliore amico è lo specchio perché quando piango lui non ride mai.

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret.

Claire De Haven and the company cared for the plight of the world. Claire De Haven and the company extolled tyrants and lived for adversarial cliché.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.

that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.

Say to these kind and gentle females, that a heart-broken and failing man returns them his thanks. Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color. The