Quotes About Compassion

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

You know I feel such tenderness for you. It's difficult to bear. I don't know what to do with my tenderness.

What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?

all things are considered, the survival of our species probably owes a great deal to the Way of empathic compassion whose innate categories are somewhere incorporated into its innate procreating consciousness.

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

With his intellectual rigor goes a great generosity of spirit.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

What if reincarnation really happens, and Jesus were reincarnated, & you were a total d*ck to him? It could happen. You should probably treat everyone like they were Jesus reincarnated.

Cosí l'umanità s'eterna e si dilata come un solo spirito in quei principii immutabili che la fanno pietosa, socievole e pensante.

because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

So what? German or French, friend or enemy, he's first and foremost a man and I'm a woman. He's good to me, kind, attentive. . .that's good enough for me. I'm not looking for anything else. Our lives are complicated enough with all these wars and bombings. Between a man and a woman, none of that's important. I couldn't care less if the man I fancy is English or black - I'd still offer myself to him if I got the opportunity.

It is morally and legally okay to show genuine concern for other people.