Quotes About Compassion

It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

We subdue that in others which we have learned to subdue in ourselves. Around the upright man there is drawn a wide circle of peace, within which the arrows of evil soon cease to fall; nor have his fellows the power to inflict moral suffering upon him.

Oh, and I almost forgot to say, Neighbour Berlingot's little girl actually did get well, when her brother brought her the beautiful bird in his cage. Did I hear someone ask whether the bird had changed colours, and really was blue ? Well, if Tyltyl and Mytyl's joy and happiness gave him a magnificent blue plumage, isn't that enough? Without knowing it, these gentle children had discovered Light's great secret, which is that we draw nearer to happiness by trying to give it to others!

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all who are sad, to expose our heart to the passer-by for him to caress or stab? Tears and suffering and wounds are helpful to us only when they do not discourage our life.

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

El silencio es el verdadero crimen de lesa humanidad.

Reírse un poquito del dolor hace al dolor un poco más pequeño.

la primera ley exigible de la poesía: enseñar la virtud, la indulgencia y el amor al prójimo, además de servir, en caso de ataque, de arma arrojadiza.

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.

Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men;

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

It seems a fair test of any political movement to enquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane.