Quotes About Compassion

EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

However, I hold it admirable that this wife — your lady, sir — can find love and marriage consonant." I thought that sadness coloured her voice, and suddenly a series of pictures flashed on my mind's eye:

Unless under the spell of a psychotic delusion, extreme rage, inescapable deprivation, drugs, or a destructive authority figure, a person who is conscience-bound does not—in some sense he cannot—kill or rape in cold blood, torture another person, steal someone's life savings, trick someone into a loveless relationship as sport, or willfully abandon his own child. Could you?

Imagine—if you can—not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members.

Understanding sociopathy can teach us that, at those times when we focus only on ourselves and our group and ignore our intrinsic ties to others—when we turn a blind eye to the importance of everyone's well-being—even those of us who do have conscience begin to lose our way, and the shadow of evil looms closer. Goodness lies in sensing our bonds with others; evil happens when, for whatever reasons, those feelings are numbed.

There is simply no known way to create a conscience in an individual who does not have one.

you are rewarding and encouraging him each and every time you allow him to see your anger, your confusion, or your hurt.

and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to "win," how would you understand the meaning of love, of friendship, of caring? You would not understand. You would simply go on dominating, and denying, and feeling superior. Perhaps you would experience a little emptiness sometimes, a remote sense of dissatisfaction, but that is all.

If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.

recharge my ability to cope with humans at close quarters without losing my mind.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need to.

I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.

In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

Ship might be unresponsive but it was doing its best and I didn't want it to hurt.

Somehow we feel the earth should stop spinning and acknowledge our grief.

It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You only hurt yourself.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

Hate's caused a lot of problems in this world, and it's never solved one yet.

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?