Quotes About Compassion

Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.

Wie schön das Leben ist, erfährt man nur, wenn man sich nicht vor allem verschließt, was einem fremd erscheint.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Sometimes Dr Reichhardt would say, 'We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité...

Wie kann man lachen, richtig lachen, in solcher Welt mit sanierten Wirtschaftsführern, die tausend Fehler gemacht haben, und kleinen, entwürdigten, zertretenen Leuten, die stets ihr Bestes taten?

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is a simulation of strength.

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting a baby, barefoot children, made him feel sadistic rather than compassionate. His socialism, then, had the impatience and unfriendliness of a fashionable doctor forced to attend a tramp run over in the street.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

i speak for none of you now,all you plotters of perfect crimes,nor for me, nor for anyone.i speak for those who can't speak,for the deaf and dumb witnesses,for otters and seals,for the ancient owls of the earth.

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

A quien se le ha dicho: «Vete y no peques más» (Jn 8, 11), es preciso acompañarle hasta que se encuentra suficientemente fortalecido en su libertad.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

To forget is good—but hard. To forgive is better.            Best of all is reconciliation.

Allow me someday to touch you.The way that you've all touched me.

We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don't care. We don't see. We just keep pushing.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?