Quotes About Compassion

This sort of thing happens with leopards, which is why Dr. MacElroy has big cats in the first place. It started with Rocky, a lion who was brought to him with virtually every bone in his body broken—"pathological fractures caused by rickets." There was a bobcat with a similar story, and Cinder's mother was another. Dr. MacElroy fixes them up, and that's how they become his pets.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Toleration is the best religion.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

It doesn't matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

Pitoyable, celui qui ne songe qu'à sa propre vie, à sa propre mort, il n'a rien compris... et qu'il s'en aille alors, c'est le mieux qu'il puisse faire, qu'il s'en aille avec notre pitié...

Why survive if it is not for those who do not?

Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.

Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.