Quotes About Compassion

But the old cripple never knew the joy of cradling a child in his own arms.

You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.

Your wolf doesn't need to hate what he kills. It would be easier if we could kill without compunction, like your wolf does, but then, we wouldn't be human.

The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us from killing a deer, or other animals, we would not live long. The

Est-ce ainsi que vos yeux consolent ma disgrâce?

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary...

When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His chosen ones.

Unhappily children do hurt flies

Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple — no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

Better not I tell you. You want to know what I do? I say doudou , if you have trouble you are right to come to me. And I kiss her. It's when I kiss her she cry - not before.

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

La conscience de l'identité entre tous les hommes est au fondement du droit à l'alimentation. Personne ne saurait tolérer la destruction de son semblable par la faim sans mettre en danger sa propre humanité, son identité. (p. 122)

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

We fought over a girl's smile, not because of the color of our skins. It created friendships, not hatreds.

So that's why I'm such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it's less about 'those people'. Because I think we're all 'those people'.

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own-indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all it's diversity, beauty, and wonder.

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. That gnaws away at the night-time hours desperate for a sign and appears at breakfast so self-composed. That longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.