Quotes About Compassion

Remember we're all in this alone.

The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

I don't want to be unjustly accused of dealing illiberally or unfairly with an adversary, either in court, or in a political canvass, or anywhere else. I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." —Dr. Seuss, The Lorax 1

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

selfish. Maybe even cruel.

Linda Castillo

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. Forgiveness breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. While dying on the cross, Jesus said, "Forgive them" — the Roman soldiers, the religious leaders, his disciples who had fled in darkness, even you and me who have denied him so many times — "Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Every life you touch, every difference you make, every prayer you pray makes the world a better place.

When we show love to others, God's presence is with us.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we're not willing to forgive someone.

Tell God what's on your heart, and don't be afraid to pray for those who need healing.

There were days when my colleagues and I were sure there was nothing left that one human being could do to another that could shock us. And then, without fail, something else came along to prove us wrong

No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.

A merciful God must surely close his eyes in anguish against the barbaric will of man to main and butcher one another

Honey, God made us all with special needs. Some are simply more apparent than others.

And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head

Perhaps the greatest use of history is that it teaches compassion for both sides and especially compassion for ordinary people caught up in great events.

I watch a bird as it brings food to its chicks. How it looks after them, how it protects them. And then I say to myself, "You're a better mother than me" ' Hatidza Mehmedovic, mother of two sons murdered at Srebrenica