Quotes About Compassion

compassion, because it implies a slightly condescending duality, whereas love is a non-differentiated state.

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it's no kindness to bring in food from the outside to maintain them at forty thousand. That just guarantees that the famine will continue.

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

Nobody here wants to be awful, he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

The boys crept to her side at early dark to sit around her, mournful, with their heads bowed down like they wished they knew how to pray the oldest prayers and pray her well. Harold held a cool cloth to her swollen eye. Sonny made fists and said, 'What was the fight about?' 'Me bein' me I guess.' 'How many was it?' 'A few.' 'Tell us the names. For when we grow up.

It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Spread love wherever you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier.

Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

Far better than any dream girl is one of flesh and blood. One warm and caring and right before your eyes.

How do you spell love? You don't spell it. You feel it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

"If you lend money to one of my people who is needy, do not be like a money-lender; charge him no interest."

"They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge."