Quotes About Compassion

Poor man. Poor mankind.

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give...If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?

People don't help much.

The evil man is within each foolish man who is hidden by a kind man

The philanthropists and humanitarians have their minds all full of the wretched and miserable whose case appeals to compassion, attacks the sympathies, takes possession of the imagination, and excites the emotions. They

our faith has been dangerously weakened—watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism.

When afflicted, love can allow thee to groan, but not to grumble.

O it is hard then, as he said, amare hominem humaniter—to love and esteem man as a man, to reverence him such so, as not to be in danger of loving their errors also.

To say we love one, and not pray for him, is a solecism.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

I suggest that it never helps anyone to tell a mother that her baby is ugly.

Treat people magnanimously if you can," he said, "It'll make you feel better. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed. Do the decent thing if you can, but for its own sake.

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of s?la: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.