Quotes About Compassion

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.

Mi papá dice que no, que una cosa es matarla para comerla y otra matarla por odio, que eso no debemos. Así que la gallinita de la verga le sigue dando huevos al vecino.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.

We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.

Kindness should be immortalized every bit as much as power.

One man gave her water from his skin pouch, which carried with it a faint taste of animal

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.

Having a relationship with God isn't about doing the right thing, it's about loving him and learning to really understand how much he loves you

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

On the night of New Year's Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year's resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.

I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer.

Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967].

It is an almost overpowering effort to be just, informed, sane and strong when you are worried about a roof over your head, money for food, for the children's shoes, for coal, for a little fun, worried and harassed by the daily unending problem of living. But it is an effort that must be made, for lasting peace is not going to come of itself, nor cheaply, nor due to someone else.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

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People leaders discover that leading is impossible when they forget that they're people first.

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.