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Quotes About Compassion

Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
And the concert halls overflow with humiliated, outraged people who close their eyes and try to turn their pale faces into receiving antennæ. They imagine that the sounds flow into them, sweet, nourishing, and that their sufferings become music, like Werther; they think that beauty is compassionate to them. Mugs. I
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Cómo yo, que no he tenido fuerzas para retener mi propio pasado puedo esperar que salvaré el de otro?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
~ Jose Marti
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
~ Leigh Steinberg
I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.
~ Mark Martin
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
~ Martin McDonagh
My work is loving the world.
~ Mary Oliver
Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.
~ Michelle Tea
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
~ Mother Teresa
Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
~ Mother Teresa
We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
~ Mother Teresa
Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.
~ Pope Francis
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
~ Ram Dass
Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.
~ Roger Delano Hinkins
Charity is the root of all good works.
~ Saint Augustine
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
~ Susan Griffin
You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.
~ Thomas Dreier
May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.
~ Thomas S. Monson