Quotes About Compassion

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Someone else's material needs are my spiritual responsibility.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

The wise and sagacious men of ancient times had the very spirit of the martial and did not kill.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

L'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore, non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Che ce ne importa di chi è già un eroe, di chi la coscienza ce l'ha già? E' il processo per arrivarci che si deve rappresentare! Finché resterà un solo individuo al di qua della coscienza, il nostro dovere sarà di occuparci di lui e solo di lui!

A distanza di tanti anni, devo dire che questo spirito, che permise ai partigiani di fare le cose meravigliose che fecero, resta ancor oggi, per muoversi nella contrastata realtà del mondo, un atteggiamento umano senza

Il modo in cui le lumache eccitavano la macabra fantasia di nostra sorella, ci spinse, mio fratello e me, a una ribellione, che era insieme di solidarietà con le povere bestie straziate, di disgusto per il sapore delle lumache cotte e d'insofferenza per tutto e per tutti [...].

V jedné jediné mali?kosti se s Augustou neshodujeme, a to v názoru, jak zacházet se zlobivými dÄ›tmi: já si myslím, že bolest dítÄ›te je ménÄ› d?ležitá než naÅ¡e a že je lepÅ¡í zp?sobit bolest dítÄ›ti, jestliže to dospÄ›lého uÅ¡etÃ…â"¢í velké mrzutosti, kdežto ona se domnívá, že jsme dítÄ› zplodili, a tak je musíme taky snáÅ¡et.

I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can't go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don't know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.

Please rate the strength of your feelings from one to five, one meaning you feel not very strongly about it all, to five meaning you have very strong feelings about me getting top surgery. Now, please fold up your answers and put them in your pocket. Please keep them to yourself, as I will try to do with my feelings about your breasts. Thank you so much for participating.

Thou shalt not let the world make you hard

It's a terrifying thing, the pain of a stranger. Impossible to bear it all, even on a strong day, even when the sun is shining and my back doesn't hurt and the dishes are all done.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it

I cannot emphasize it too strongly that our gifts-whether they consist in wealth, or in the ability to sing, to paint, to build, or to count-are not given unto us to be used for our pleasure merely, or as means of our advancement, weather social or intellectual. But they are given unto us that we may use them for helping those who need help.

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

What a brave man she was, and what a good woman.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Thus use your frog…. Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;… and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.