Quotes About Compassion

my great-aunts and uncles died in wards like those. Wrapping and muffling themselves, gazing at the long windows streaming rain, visitors would tell the patient: 'You're in the best place.

She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.

You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.

In the camp we saw our own people kill each other over a crust of bread. In the old days I used to think that religion did not matter much, that people could be good without it. That was not true in the camps. If you had no hope or faith to keep you human, you sank to the lowest depths. I'll practice my religion more faithfully now.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

The very worst thing, she was certain, was not human misery, but its nakedness, and the naked witness of others.

He readied himself for an outburst of anger that never happened. So he became angry for her and tried not to show it in her presence.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Duniya mein rehna hai toh kaam kar pyare, Haath jod sabko salaam kar pyare, Varna yeh duniya jeene nahi degiKhane nahi degi, peene nahi degi (Do some work if you want to live in this world. Salute everyone and request them. Or else this world won't let you live. It won't let you eat or drink anything )

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

Never strike your wife — even with a flower.

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

It is far more important to know what sort of person has the disease, rather than what sort of disease the person has.

There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.