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Quotes About Compassion

He pushed through the bushes. In a little hollow were three small puppies, whining faintly. They were cold and draggled with mud. Someone had left them there, evidently, to perish. They were huddled close together; their eyes, a cloudy unspeculative blue, were only just opened. "This is gruesome," said Gissing, pretending to be shocked.
~ Christopher Morley
Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
~ Christopher Nolan
Because of monster movies and stereotypical witch stories, many people who do not condemn witchcraft to the realm of nonsense think that there is a monster or demon hiding behind every corner waiting to get them. Magick tends to amplify the intentions given to it. If you learn centeredness, confidence, and compassion, magick will amplify those qualities, rather than your fears. Protection magick and psychic self-defense skills alleviate your fears and bring balance.
~ Christopher Penczak
Being able to conceive moral contexts from multiple sides and being able to more deeply understand each person involved are major achievements in moral development.
~ Christopher Peterson
However, research with activists in the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s and of those who sheltered Holocaust survivors during World War II confirm that compassion, empathy, and social responsibility were core family values that motivated their actions. Once exercised in action, values of social responsibility and service to others may become integral to identity.
~ Christopher Peterson
In contrast to the objectivity of blind justice and the abstract logic of principled reasoning, care reasoning requires understanding particularity—the needs, interests, and well-being of another person—and understanding the relationship between oneself and that other person. This requires a moral stance "informed by care, love, empathy, compassion, and emotional sensitivity.
~ Christopher Peterson
When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.
~ Christopher Pike
When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.
~ Christopher Pike
I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
~ Christopher Reeve
To love with all your heart, the heart must first be opened.
~ Unknown
qué es un amigo? Alguna vez he compartido una frase que me gusta: «Un amigo es la persona que conoce todos tus defectos y que, a pesar de eso, te sigue amando igual».
~ Unknown
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
~ Christopher Smart
How little he needs. Just love. More love. — Christopher Wiseman, from "Bedside Manners," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)
~ Unknown
Perhaps, just perhaps, you're there. How little he needs. Just love. More love. — Christopher Wiseman, from "Bedside Manners," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)
~ Unknown
Christopher Young
~ Unknown
Tough love? That's bullshit. You love your kid and you keep on loving your kid. You take your kid back no matter what, and you keep on taking your kid back. Once, twice, a hundred times. The tough-love philosophy tells you to give your kid a million bucks and say, Don't come home until you're clean. Well, I did that. I gave my daughter a million bucks. She never got clean, and she never came home. She died.
~ Chuck Barris
I saw power, yet meekness, forcefulness, yet gentleness, discipline, yet compassion. I had never seen eyes like His.
~ Unknown
A heart as hard as granite was slowly transformed to a heart ready to give and receive compassion. The story of the prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there once was a prison.
~ Unknown
A heart as hard as granite was slowly transformed to a heart ready to five and receive compassion. The story of the prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there once was a prison.
~ Unknown
It's wrong to do NOTHING when you have the power to do SOMETHING.
~ Unknown
Because my dad fought and gave his life defending people who couldn't defend themselves." Drew felt his eyes ache with rising tears and a lump forming in his throat. "And he taught me to do the same. He taught me that it's wrong to do nothing when you have the power to do something.
~ Unknown
Esse mundo é muito filho da puta, não é? — disse Gus. Angel assentiu. — Mas é o único que nós temos. Gus sentiu um arroubo de amor por aquele seu compatriota fodido.
~ Chuck Hogan
Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
~ Unknown
The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
~ Chuck Palahniuk