Quotes About Compassion

if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:

We are going to have to stop penalising people for making that most human of gestures- mistake

When I empathize, I feel the frailty and transitory nature of another's existence. To empathize is to root for the other to flourish and experience the full potential of their short abide.

I nostri pronipoti troveranno barbara l'usanza di nutrirsi di animali. Nei prossimi anni milioni di persone sceglieranno di mangiare a un gradino più basso della catena alimentare, così da permettere che milioni di altri possano ottenere quanto occorre per sopravvivere. Se ciò succederà, aumenterà il livello di salute globale - nostra, del Sud del mondo, del pianeta.

How can I truly serve others if I'm also serving myself, or my ego?

I shook my head. She kissed my cheek, then on her way out patted Zachary's shoulder in a way that said, If you upset Aura in her weakened state, I will end you.

When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.  When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care.

My fellow-passengers generally let on that they were going to see sick relatives

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.

The princess wrote to her mother of her feelings about these activities: " … if one never sees poverty and always lives in that cold circle of Court people, one's good feelings dry up, and I feel the want of going about and doing the little good that is in my power." She added that "I am sure you will understand this.

After nine births of her own, Victoria was unsympathetic to any complaints her daughters had about their pregnancies, though she was still willing and indeed anxious to help at the deliveries.

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

How can you hate somebody who's got one foot in hell itself?

We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

The best part of a relationship is when you're sick. And the best time to be sick is in a relationship.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.