Quotes About Compassion

In a fight to the death, I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.

Real winners do not compete.

I love you all - if you are not people!

Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Be with those who help your being.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in this world?