Quotes About Compassion

The Master said of Gong Yechang, "He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime." The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Ada yang mengukur hidup mereka dari hari dan tahun. Yang lain dengan denyut jantung, gairah, dan air mata. Tetapi ukuran sejati di bawah mentari adalah apa yang telah engkau lakukan dalam hidup ini untuk orang lain.

The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."-

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.

Aspire to the principal, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.

What you don´t want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkeness

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

you govern effectively," Confucius replied, "what need is there for killing? If you want to be truly adept (shan ), the people will also be adept. The excellence (de ) of the exemplary person (junzi ) is the wind, while that of the petty person is the grass. As the wind blows, the grass is sure to bend.

Benevolence is love to all men. It is to know all men.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But

io sui ici en liu dami amo' ('I am here in place of a friend love')

Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by—

a powder for the headache which Mrs. Mering had given all of us, but which she took herself.

her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No

Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey?

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.