Quotes About Compassion

And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. "Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Focus on people and the needs they have.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." JOHN 15:12

And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.

She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor

Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.

The world does not exist for our exclusive satisfaction. It consists of billions of creatures all trying to make their way through life, and God loves them all, even the creatures that can harm us (for more on this point, see Job 38–41).

9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. You may have come a long way to visit me, he told the prowler, and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. Poor fellow, he mused, I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.

She started to try to cover the sad marks of what she had done. Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks. It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends, never easy.

But when a sick person begins to feel that he's going to die, half my work is useless.

Nada conmueve tanto a las mujeres como la posibilidad de salvar un hombre.

Una persona sufrida es menos sensible al dolor que las que apenas si ha sido tocadas por la adversidad.

El amor es exclusivo; la caridad no lo es: preferir a una persona entre otras es un pecado contra la caridad.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.

The Scroll Marked II I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Do all things with love