Quotes About Compassion

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone.

We loved once, and we loved badly. We loved again, and again we loved badly. We did it a third time, and we were no longer living in a world free of experience. We saw that love did not make us tender, wise, or compassionate. Under its influence we gave up neither our fears nor our angers. Within ourselves we remained unchanged. The development was an astonishment: not at all what had been expected. The atmosphere became charged with revelation, and it altered us permanently as a culture.

Men should discover their past. I admit to this. It has been my profession. Only so can we learn our limitations and come in time to suffer life with compassion. Nevertheless, I now believe there are occasions when … to tamper with the past, even one's own, is to bring [on] that slipping, sliding horror which revolves around all that is done, unalterable, and yet which abides unseen in the living mind … [and makes] us lonely beyond belief.

i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to ' be and do' is not a given.

My mother was kind," she said. "She had a kind heart. Your mother? She was organized. My mother would sit up with her own kids when they were sick, and she'd sit up with you, too. Your mother would march into the kitchen like a top sergeant and say to my mother, 'Levinson, stop crying, put on a brassiere, fix yourself up.

In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Love truth, and pardon error.

We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

The world is full of people who care but never quite care enough.

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

BaÅŸlar?nda saç yerine tavuskuÅŸu tüyleri olan ruhlar; bir alev çevriminden bir y?ld?za doÄŸru giden hayalet; ruhun simgesi olan ve yar?ya kadar eliyle gizlediÄŸi yanardöner bir küreyle geçen ruh. Ama hep insan?n k?r?lgan umutlar?na yönelen ÅŸefkatli bir öÄŸüdün gizlediÄŸi renk yeÄŸniliÄŸi alt?nda.

I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them.

When she sat on the couch I jumped up to be with her and I put my head in her lap. I could feel some of the tension and sadness leave her. I was giving Mom comfort. This was more important than going for walks, more important than helping feed the cats—it was the most important job I had. I knew I should sit with Mom for as long as she needed me.

She taught me that it was a good thing to love more than just my boy, Ethan, opening my eyes to the fact that I'd actually loved many people in my lives, that loving humans was my ultimate purpose.

Humans know everything, not just how to take car rides or where to find bacon but also when dogs are good or bad and where dogs should sleep and what toys they should play with.

But people don't always make sense. Dogs love them anyway.

We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.

Clarity was looking down and seemed unhappy, so I put my paws on her chest and tried to lick her face. In my experience, being licked by a dog can cheer up just about anybody.