Quotes About Compassion

We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.

It's not how much we give but how much we put into giving. -Mother Teresa

We want to be part of a new generation of givers.

The issue isn't whether we've experienced pain. All people have, even those who seem to have it all together. God is bigger than people's pain, and he can heal it. God's love heals all.

Hai bisogno di uno con una mano grande così. [...] Uno che se ne sta con la mano alzata, forte, ferma, come la statua della Libertà, ma senza quel cono gelato. Solo con la mano aperta, in alto e allora tu... [...] tu da lontano, da qualsiasi punto della terra, vedrai quella mano e saprai che lì potrai posarti e riposare.

Remember that every person only lives for a short time, and you have to make that time pleasant for him.

Dove sei? Come curi questo mal di cuore? So che soffri quanto me. Forse persino più di me, perchè in questo momento ti siamo entrambi contro.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

1996) The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion and Renewal. New York: Addison-Wesley.

Lao Tzu, likewise a model, gives us the basic truth: Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up.122 These three [things] are your greatest treasures: simplicity, patience, [and] compassion. 123 Cultivated in the person, integrity is true.124

Bob] Dylan said, "I don't have to B.S. anybody like those guys up on Broadway that're always writin' about 'I'm hot for you and you're hot for me--ooka dooka dicka dee.' There's other things in the world besides love and sex that're important too. People shouldn't turn their backs on 'em just because they ain't pretty to look at. How is the world ever gonna get any better if we're afraid to look at these things.

It's all very well to have a kind heart, but kind hearts don't rule castles.

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people, rather than to follow bureaucratic regulations.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that "the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.

failure to respect the dignity and worth of all human personality.

nurturing and teaching the infant Savior of the world.

I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.