Quotes About Compassion

But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.

Je lui aurais volontiers pardonné son orgueil s'il n'avait tant mortifié le mien.

He looks miserable poor soul!

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Las personas que como yo padecen de los nervios no tienen muchas ganas de hablar. ¡Nadie imagina mi sufrimiento! Pero siempre ha sido igual. Si uno no se queja, nadie le compadece.

The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.

For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it…

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

sin querer obrar mal ni hacer infelices a los otros se puede errar y ocasionar desgracia. La carencia de reflexión o la escasa atención a los sentimientos ajenos, así como la falta de resolución, dan ese resultado.

e eu seria a primeira a fechar os olhos a seu orgulho, se ele não tivesse ferido o meu.

La amistad es el mejor bálsamo para las heridas que produce en el alma un amor mal correspondido.

Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her.

If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves." Harriet

Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them. If you will thank me, he replied, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you. Elizabeth

Cuando contemplo una noche como esta, tengo la sensación de que ni la maldad ni el dolor pueden existir en el mundo; y es seguro que de las dos cosas habría menos si se atendiera más a la sublimidad de la naturaleza y la humanidad llevara su mirada un poco más allá del círculo de mezquindades en que se encierra, contemplando un espectáculo como éste.

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition—and

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.