Quotes About Compassion

Ma poi si arriva al punto che... cioè, se quella persona arrivi ad amarla, allora è come se la faccenda si capovolgesse. Cioè non è più che apprezzi quella persona per via di certi aspetti di quella persona; piuttosto è che cominci ad apprezzare gli aspetti di quella persona perché apprezzi la persona. Tipo come una cosa centrifuga anziché centripeta.

you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That

That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.

There was something almost unbearably touching about a bald spot on a handicapped man.

and he can feel his heart going out into the world...

Capii che gli ubriachi e gli storpi vengono trascinati fuori dall'arena come Cristi disossati, un uomo sotto ogni braccio, coi piedi che strisciano a terra, gli occhi al cielo.

sentence-by-sentence basis—that it's okay if a person

there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.

X secretly castigates himself and wonder where his basic decency and compassion are.

Here is how to take nonnarcotic muscle relaxants for the back spasms that come from thousands of serves to no one. Here is how to weep in bed trying to remember when your torn blue ankle didn't hurt every minute. This is the whirlpool, a friend.

a manual for how to build a mentally ill child

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.

Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away.

If God does exist then it seems to me that rather than solve our problems for us, he or she instead provides us with the potential for great intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and compassion. It is then left up to us to use these to solve our own problems.

Abraham Lincoln, the closing lines of his first inaugural. It was an appeal for peace; he prayed that all of us would finally be moved by 'the better angels of our nature.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.