Quotes About Compassion

E, com um pouco mais de sinceridade, tornaríamos a vida mais fácil para todos.

Meu caro irmão, talvez o melhor seja zombar de nossas pequenas misérias e também um pouco das grandes misérias da vida humana.

Theo, I am a man with faults and errors and passions, but I don't think I ever tried to deprive anyone of his bread or his friends. I have sometimes fought people with words, but attempting a man's life because of a difference of opinion is not the work of an honest man - at least, these are not honest weapons.

Today, Friday, I went there but could not see him. The intern and the attendant told me that after my wife left, he had had a terrible attack; he had a very bad night, and they had to put him in an isolated room. Since he has been locked in this room, he has eaten no food and utterly refused to talk. That is the exact state of your brother at present.

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwanderer, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

And one would almost conclude that some people have cauterized certain sensitive nerves within themselves - especially those which, combined, are called conscience. Well, I pity them - in my opinion they travel through life without a compass. One might suppose that the love for humanity which is the foundation of everything should be in every human being.

What is done in love, is well done

Ludilo je spasonosno, jer ?ovek možda postaje manje isklju?iv.

You are kind to painters, and I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. You will say that then it would be a good thing to do without art and artists.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

A vida só se dá para quem se deu.

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

I cannot bear a mother's tears.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Press no further with hate.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?

What does the cross mean?" I ask him. "Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder." "Of what?" "Well. Of—Well, evil. That evil's always gonna be around, and you deal with it.