Quotes About Compassion

Droom: dat de hele mensheid bij elkaar komt, in een soort honderdduizendvoudig Feyenoord-stadion, en gezamenlijk begint te huilen van 'zie ons hier zitten'.

Ka disa pseudoepoka paqeje, gjate te cilave edhe veprimet me te mira na duken te dyshimta dhe na ngjallin nje mosbesim te fshehte, ku edhe vete meshira na duket si shtazeri. Nga ana tjeter, ka periudha gjate te cilave imoraliteti i paskrupullt, gabimet, padrejtesite, vesi dhe krimi formojne sfondin e nje tabele sublime, ngazellyese, dhe sherbejne vetem per t'i dhene asaj nje vule vertetesie. Sa me te erreta jane njollat, aq me te ndritshme duken vendet e ndricuara.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!

Oh, wise physician of a wasted land!

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Love is stronger than violence.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

This is true religion—knowing there is a bond among all living things. Having understood this, there is nothing to mourn, because even though nothing can ever be retained, nothing is ever lost.

And he had learned that pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.

She stroked my hair. Sweet, damp sounds + smells from the ground. Clusters of clouds against the unwrinkled sky. She must have thought my tears were of pain.

True idealists, in contrast, care about the welfare of others above and especially against their own interests. If you enjoy your work or profit from it, how can you be sure you're truly doing it for others and not yourself?

He had never refused to confront any of his wife's facets, however hurtful or confusing he found them.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

I've always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune.

A noi si addice la paura della tenerezza

Ich schäme mich nicht, wenn ich sage, das Taschentuch war der einzige Mensch, der sich im Lager um mich kümmerte. Ich bin mir sicher, auch heute noch. Manchmal kriegen die Dinge eine Zartheit, eine monströse, die man von ihnen nicht erwartet.

Yo miro a la abuela, no su cara, sino sus manos. Todos los tendones están tensos, ya no hay carne en esas manos, tan sólo huesos y piel reseca. La muerte podría inmovilizarlas en cualquier momento, pero aún se mueven cuando reza, y el rosario susurra entre ellas.

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.