Quotes About Compassion

croyais que l'on aimait adulte comme on avait été aimé enfant, je me trompais, le véritable amour consiste à donner ce dont on a manqué, sans retenue ni crainte

I was terrified those nights that I was searching for the wounded, but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

C'est lorsque l'on donne du peu que l'on a que l'on donne vraiment.

Ma un giorno tu mi hai detto che anche il peggiore di noi ha le ali nascoste da qualche parte e che bisogna aiutarlo ad aprirle invece di condannarlo.

When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The

We're all carrying around some shit. When you hear the things people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It give us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The hope that, maybe, just maybe, we're going to be okay. Maybe.

Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.

Besides, it's always other people who die.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Ce n'est ni l'amitié ni la bonté qui nous manquent, mais nous qui manquons à l'amitié et à la bonté.

Mieux vaut d'être haï par un doux qu'aimé par un cruel.

Dans les petites villes, les gens sont toujours prêts à partager vos ennuis. Si vous n'en avez pas, ils se font une joie de vous en créer.

Het is altijd mijn overtuiging geweest dat je iemand brood moet geven als hij honger heeft, maar hem zelf voor het beleg moet laten zorgen. Dat stimuleert het initiatief.

Tel est le peuple : ses défauts ne viennent que de son ignorance. Mais son coeur est bon comme le bon pain, et il a la générosité des enfants.

Quand on ne sait pas grand chose, on est toujours cruel pour ceux qui savent encore moins.

I had caught my dear superman red-handed in the act of being human: I felt that I loved him even more for it.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.