Quotes About Compassion

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

too often we understimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potentional to turn a life round.

the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

All of Judaism's philosophy, ethics, ethos, learning, education, and hierarchy of values are saturated with a sense of, and heightened sensitivity to, rakhmones. God is often called the God of Mercy and Compassion: Adonai El Rakhum Ve-Khanum. The writings of the prophets are permeated with appeals for rakhmones, a divine attribute. (So, too, are the words of Jesus and the books of the New Testament.)

Wir werden nicht geliebt, weil wir so gut sind, sondern weil diejenigen, die uns lieben gut sind.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love those you hate you.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?