Quotes About Compassion

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Animals make us Human.

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. I wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

The purpose of all major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities.

Megogong otigree" (keeping quiet means no cruelty).

One who understands is freer in the head but sadder in the heart. It is sad to know that there is so much wrong in our world, and for the most part we are helpless to do anything about it.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto.(I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.)