Quotes About Compassion

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

The only greatness is unselfish Love.

Só conseguimos ser generosos connosco nas poucas vezes que precisamos de ser severos.

A única maneira de salvarmos os nossos sonhos, é sermos generosos connosco.

So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.

The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.

Y, de nuevo, quien ama sale ganando, aunque no busque ninguna recompensa.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

It's like the Léon Damas story about the black man on the bus who felt bad because the only other black man on the same bus was ugly and sweaty and dirty and ill-kempt. It is hard to express it. So sad.

You are right," he had said. "Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself." That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

Omul prost se teme de cel deÈ™tept È™i îl ur??te. Oricât de bun ar fi cel deÈ™tept, trebuie s? priceap? c? asta nu va cuceri afecÈ›iunea unuia cu mai puÈ›in? minte decât el.

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald.

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.