Quotes About Compassion

Ce qui m'inspire le plus. C'est l'amour, parce que je crois que l'amour c'est à la fois, la chose la plus recherchée et vraisemblablement, la chose la plus maltraitée.

Je ne peux changer autrui mais je peux changer mon regard, mon écoute et donc, par là, changer ma relation à lui.

Pourquoi donne-t-on? Pour se relier, pour rompre la solitude et faire partie de la chaîne à nouveau, pour se brancher sur la vie, pour faire circuler les choses dans un système vivant, pour sentir qu'on fait partie de quelque chose de plus vaste et notamment de l'humanité chaque fois on fait un don à un inconnu.

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It is that love can make the most terrible things acceptable.

They say fifty lashes will kill a man. So I'll spare you the last one.

BLM: we all human and in life we need each other at some point, treat each others like brothers and sisters you never had.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

During the periods of famine and drought the Prophet's fostermother Halimah came at times to see her son. The Prophet then used to spread his cloak under her feet, recollected her kind sentiments and the simple life which he had spent with her and listened to what she said. At the time of her departure he helped her with as much as he could afford.

Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.

Generally, the smartest people on the planet – those people who think they are really smart – tend to have the most horrible relationships.

If even for a moment, you experience everything around you as a part of yourself, after that do I have to teach you morality - 'Be good to this person, don't harm this person, don't kill this peron.' Anything that you know as 'myself', with that you are in harmony, with that there is no conflict, there is no problem. It is the other which is the problem.

Reasons can always be justified Brahma. The biggest error in life is to believe that your reasons are right and the other person's reasons are wrong.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

Perdoname también el que te quiera como a mí mismo; porque me soy infiel, porque me engaño".

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it opened and closed over words, or as she laughed. How terrible it must be for all the people who had no one to love them so and no one whom they loved so, I thought.

Mariah was the kindest person I had ever known. Her concern was not an unexpected part of her; it could be said that her kindness was the result of her comfortable circumstances, but many people in her position were not as kind and considerate as she was. And that was the reason I couldn't bring myself to point out to her that if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances;

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Sympathy—not here a form of compassion, but rather a kind of attunement to the states of mind of other people—is absolutely central to the world of the passions as Hume describes it. It gives us the vivid, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes painful, sense we always have of ourselves as standing in relation with other people.

mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear, and no ears to head it if there was a word, and no one to understand it if they heard. God save the little children! They abide and they endure.

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.