Quotes About Compassion

Gift giving is a true art. 1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift. 2. You need to know what they truly want. 3. You must be able to give it to them. Anything less is a symptom of varying degrees, on your part, of ignorance, distance, or insult. But if you cannot afford the right gift, telling the person what you would do if you could , justifies everything—as you present that not-so-perfect substitute.

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

El llanto es el idioma que de verdad nos pertenece a todos, porque cualquiera que sea la lengua que hablemos, todos lloramos igual. El llanto era el idioma de la humanidad; el del Paraíso seguía siendo un misterio.

El perdón es el mayor valor de cualquier guerrero.

Forget yourself for others, and others will

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.

When understanding another person's problem you help him correctly, even though there is nothing you can do about it.

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

She despised people who gave way to self-pity. Weeping wouldn't do anyone any good.

It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. -Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Your beautiful heart was born to love.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Though he had always thought logging elephants had a good life, he found himself now pining for them to have something better. The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. Even with this reassuring

Imagine a world where people are drawn to the life-changing displays of God's love in our own lives, rather than repelled by our harsh words of judgment and finger-pointing over the sins and imperfections of others.

We as believers cannot be effective in offering others hope and forgiveness when we're not living in the light of that hope.

sometimes it's not necessary to know what elephants or people are thinking, as long as one honors what they are feeling.