Quotes About Compassion

If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better