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Quotes About Compassion

If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
~ William Saroyan
Each of you will begin to be truly human when, in spite of your natural dislike of one another, you still respect one another. That is what it means to be civilized.
~ William Saroyan
I miss you of course and I think of you all the time. I am O.K., and even though I have never believed in wars - and know them to be foolish, even when they are necessary - I am proud that I am involved since so many others are, and this is what's happening. I do not recognize any enemy which is human, for no human being can be my enemy. Whoever he is, he is my friend. My quarrel is not with him, but with that unfortunate part of him which I seek to destroy in myself first.
~ William Saroyan
Lidi jsou t?žký. Lidi jsou lidi. Lidi jsou zábava, hra, fantazie, kouzla a ?árymáry. Lidi miluju. Bláznivé lidi, krásné lidi, zklamané lidi, nemocné lidi, zlomené lidi, zni?ené lidi. Takové lidi miluju.
~ William Saroyan
One beautiful heart is better than thousand beautiful faces. So choose people having beautiful hearts rather than faces!
~ Unknown
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~ William Shakespeare
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
~ William Shakespeare
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
~ William Shakespeare
He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
~ William Shakespeare
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.
~ William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
~ William Shakespeare
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
~ William Shakespeare
It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
~ William Shakespeare
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
~ William Shakespeare
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
~ William Shakespeare
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
~ William Shakespeare
For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
~ William Shakespeare
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
~ William Shakespeare
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Kneel not to me. The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you. Live, And deal with others better.
~ William Shakespeare
Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
~ William Shakespeare
A ministering angel shall my sister be.
~ William Shakespeare
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
~ William Shakespeare