Quotes About Compassion

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.