Quotes About Compassion

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

Let's reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.