Quotes About Compassion

Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another

It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

If you could forget and forgive what happened." He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.

It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last. "Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...

Where love is, there God is also.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.

At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to understand it so differently.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

They haven't an idea what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it possible that man's heart can harbour, amid such ravishing natural beauty, feelings of hatred, vengeance, or the desire to destroy his fellows? All the evil in man, one would think, should disappear on contact with Nature, the most spontaneous expression of beauty and goodness.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.