Quotes About Compassion

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

love does not mean everything will be perfect. Humans are not perfect. We mess up, argue, make mistakes. But if we're smart, we forget about those and get back to love because that's what makes life worthwhile.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

Meanness of spirit has no place in disagreements. It all boils down to how you love others.

Love is cruel, but it beats hate by a long shot, kiddos.

L'humanité souffre. Et je souffre avec elle.

Okay. Sorry," she mumbles. I move to the edge of the bed and peer into her face, looking for a sign of anything I can reason with. Her pale blue eyes are smoky, vacant.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

The busy have no time for tears.

LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish. CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.

Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

on the other hand the machine does not bleed, ache, hang for hours in the empty sky in a torment of hope to learn the fate of another machine, nor does it cry out with joy nor dance in the air with the fierce passion of a bird.

Profit at the expense of no one.