Quotes About Compassion

Wear a smile — one size fits all.

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Two hands are too small a bowl. One heart is a hill too small, to rest on.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Ein Hurenhaus geriet um Mitternacht in Brand. Schnell sprang, zum Löschen oder Retten, Ein Dutzend Mönche von den Betten. Wo waren die? Sie waren – – bei der Hand. Ein Hurenhaus geriet in Brand.

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe!

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

If you make happy those who are near, those who are far will come.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity…. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

Some people feed you with love.

How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

A bullet would perhaps be an unnecessarily severe form of punishment to mete out; but I confess I could excuse the man who was so far carried away by his righteous indignation as to duck the fellow in the nearest horse-pond.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

8I have charity for the Jew (I say Jew, because I mean them from whence I came). 9