Quotes About Compassion

she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Before you judge me, look in the mirror.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

But they who love the greater love Lay down their life; they do not hate.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

Even lawyers have hearts, and mine ached a little as I took leave of her.

Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

He was an object to laugh at - he was an object to weep over. His enemies, if a creature so wretched could have had enemies, would have forgiven him, on seeing him in his new dress. His friends - had any of his friends been left - would have been less distressed if they had looked at him in his coffin, than if they had looked at him as he was now.

Daha az duygusal olan kad?nlar?n fark?na bile varmayaca?? birçok önemsiz ayr?nt? onun duyarl? ruhu için ?st?rap kayna?? oluyordu. Hani mutsuz olmak için doÄŸmuÅŸ insanlar vard?r ya; iÅŸte o zavall? onlardan biriydi.

Grief has this that is noble in it—it accepts all sympathy, come whence it may. She

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.

When a simpleton abused him, Buddha listened in silence; but when the man had finished, Buddha asked him: "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" The man answered: "To him who offered it." "My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request you to keep it for yourself

Man's duty, says the Avesta, is three-fold: "To make him who is an enemy a friend; to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned."76

It would be better to abandon our overrapid development of the intellect, and to aim rather at training the heart and the affections

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole. Probably all three doctrines must be combined to find a perfect ethics; but can we doubt which of the elements is fundamental? X. Criticism

I do not wish to belittle reason, but it should be the servant of love, not of pride.

People are kind to one another in the real world, even if it's a meaningless kindness. It goes unremarked upon. But it shouldn't. We are always much angrier on our phones than we are in the real world.

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

You hurt people. Killed people. But the saddest thing is --- you didn't do it because you didn't care. You did it because you cared too much. - Ben Kincaid

The most sublime act is to set another before you.