Quotes About Compassion

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

His injury the gaoler to his pity.

Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault, Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare

Tutti gli uomini sanno dare consigli e conforto al dolore che non provano.

When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

God's benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!

There is no more mercy in [Coriolanus] than there is milk in a male tiger.

Dostluk s?caktan soÄŸuÄŸa böyle geçer iÅŸte. Dikkat et, hep böyle olur, Lucilius. Sevgi tükenip bezginliÄŸe yüz tuttu mu, Zoraki nezaket gösterileri baÅŸlar. Aç?k yürekli, candan baÄŸl? bir insan gösteriÅŸ yapmaz.

Lady Macduff: Now God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father? Son: If he were dead, you'd weep for him. If you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.

Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities

Let your love flow out on all living things.

I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but yes, a human being.

And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.

more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain. But

The grief is coming now, she said to herself: He's beginning to know what suffering is. Perhaps that's good in a way. Even he. Perhaps that's good for a man—finally to know what suffering is, to know what a woman somehow knows almost from the day she's born.

I did not weep for the six million Jews or the two million Poles or the one million Serbs or the five million Russians -- I was unprepared to weep for all humanity -- but I did weep for these others who in one way or another had become dear to me, and my sobs made an unashamed racket across the abandoned beach

Respect is essentially a yes to others, not to their demands, but rather to their basic humanity. In this sense, respect is indivisible. When we give respect to others, we are honoring the very same humanity that exists in us. When we acknowledge the dignity of others, we are acknowledging our own dignity. We cannot truly respect others without respecting ourselves at the same time.

H. W. Longfellow, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

5. Respect Them Even If. Are you feeling any antagonism toward anyone? What is it like to be in their shoes? Even if they are not showing you respect, can you still respect them? 6. Give and Receive. Do you feel a fear of scarcity in any situation you are currently facing? What will it take for you to change the game from taking to giving, from win-lose to win-win-win?

You can empathize without sympathizing.