Quotes About Compassion

It's a loathsome tale, yet I'm proof of God's love. He seeks us out to be His very own. My life had been so horrible, but it all changed when I surrendered to Him. It's the most important decision you'll ever make, and I pray you will soon understand the power of God's unconditional love.

How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts?

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it

Links zu sein, sagt Gilles Deleuze in seinem Abécédaire, das heiße, 'eine Horizontwahrnehmung' zu haben (die Welt als ganze zu sehen, die Probleme der Dritten Welt wichtiger zu finden als die des eigenen Viertels). Nicht links zu sein hingegen bedeute, die Wahrnehmung auf das eigene Land, auf die eigene Straße zu verengen.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

As she only cries about once a year I really ought to have gone over and comforted her, but I wanted to set it all down here. I begin to see that writers are liable to become callous.

It can't be immoral to love anyone -- as long as one doesn't hurt anyone by it.

I felt as I did once when Rose had very bad toothache - that it was callous of me to be so separate from the pain, that just being sorry for suffering people isn't enough.

miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other. Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow. So does port, I said cynically.

perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know any thing but happiness.

Was he again -- I had never forgotten that overheard phrase of Eve's -- being kind to be cruel? I only knew I had been given back enough to live on. And dimly, dimly, I began to see a new Last Act to crown my play.