Quotes About Compassion

Practice empathy. Try to see things from other people's points of view.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. 578

After someone apologizes to you, don't lecture them. Remember that cruel words deeply hurt.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have

The 3 most powerful resources you have available to you : love, prayer and forgiveness.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."[29]

I turned away, already wondering if he'd stick to the handout's condition, or if he'd head straight for his regular supplier. A tenner wouldn't buy him much, so maybe he'd just drink it away. I let it go: I could only make the offer – the rest was up to him. I'd learned a long time ago it was all you could do.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

own. I am sure that is what the family remembered best about me because of the way the mother's letter began. "Dear Vet with the bandaged finger …

James Herriot

I looked again at the dog and saw in his eyes only a calm trust. Some dogs would have barked their heads off and soon been discovered, some would have become terrified and vicious, but this was one of the totally undemanding kind, the kind which had complete faith in people and accepted all their actions without complaint.

When a lonely, penniless old woman dies people don't rush up to you in the street to tell you.

James Herriot

More: as the cure depends on care, so does caring sometimes mean nothing more than carrying.

those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world.

And there's another thing, too—it don't hurt when you chip me about it. Thick-skinned and tenderhearted, that's my mixture.