Quotes About Compassion

We need to be able to acknowledge and tolerate a person's wounded self -putting it into a perspective- in order to create a loving relationship with them.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.

Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Nessuno ricorderebbe il Buon Samaritano se avesse avuto solo buone intenzioni. Aveva anche soldi.

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.

How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.

Why can't she see that no two people are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds are all different. Only our dreams share this same desperate need to rise and soar...

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

We are not different nor alike But each strange in his leather body sealed in skin and reaching out clumsy hands and loving is an act that cannot outlive the open hand the open eye the door in the chest standing open.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.

It was not that I did not miss Arofa. To this day, I dream about her. I kept seeing her ghost. But I have always believed that if you love a pet, when they die, you find a pet who needs a home, and that is how you show your love. To me, giving love to new cats commemorated her in the only way that mattered.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.

Oversensitivity is the silent cause of all suffering. —Anonymous

Darwin proved that not only are humans and all other animals related but also that we together feel pain, share emotions, and possess memory, reason, and imagination. Rather than seeing humans and animals as categorically different, Darwin showed that all animals, including humans, share a continuum of mental and emotional capacities.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

A good heart is when a girl that you loved, a girl who has pained you and chosen another instead, places in your hands the means to her own ruin. And you could tell it to everyone. But you keep silent, because you can do that, too, and a good heart would do that, a fine man, a man who truly loved her....Let her be lucky now."- A Good Heart.