Quotes About Compassion

primo passo di ogni guerra è la disumanizzazione del nemico. Il nemico non è un uomo come te, quindi non ha gli stessi diritti.

The human heart is a dark forest

I think the nature of faith is love an love of the goodness in man.

He remembered that these imaginary conversations always began the same way, with the same phrase, the words he believed lay at the core of what any human being ever wants to hear from another, what affection is in its primary essence, what the bonds of friendship and family mean above all else. So he placed his hand gently on Bemm's shoulder and, softly, slowly, spoke the phrase, over and over again, as if it were a prayer, "I am so glad you are here.

You have to want to save someone in order to be saved.

Pain Can Come to you through the ones You Love

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to color your hair. Try to understand where people are coming from. Don't forget that most people are really good at heart. And if you hate your name, change it.

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

My Father Still Sleeping After Surgery In spite of himself, my father loved me. In spite of the hands that beat me, in spite of the mouth that kept silent, in spite of the face that turned cruel as a gold Chinese king, he could not control the love that came out of him. The body is monumental, a colossus through which he breathes. His hands crawl over his stomach jerkily as sand crabs on five legs; he makes a fist like the fist of a newborn.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

Maria Pollia, her school's theology teacher, remembered that Meghan was 'unusually compassionate'. Thomas Markle could also take credit for the observation by the school's head teacher

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything -- meals, jobs, clothing.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To

I cannot help thinking that, if mine and Ellis's book exists, there might be men, even if it is only a handful, who read it, and see that they must never marry. Or there might be grown-up children who read it, and forgive their fathers. I don't think it is silly of me, to wish to spare people pain. The book may not change the law, not on its own, but it may spare people pain.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham