Quotes About Compassion

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

that falling to pieces serves nobody. You can't help anyone else hold themselves together if you yourself are scattered to the wind.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

A true man hates no one.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

History paints the human heart.

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being.

La quotidiana solitudine è l'unico mezzo che noi abbiamo di partecipare alla vita del prossimo, perduto e stretto in una solitudine uguale.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world, and why not finally carry that secret out with our bodies into the living rooms and porches, backyards and grocery stores? Let the whole thing flower: the poem and the person writing the poem. And let us always be kind in this world.

Understanding engenders care.

Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one - Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge

When we were upset as little girls, Dad used to say, "Let's go to the window and see if we see anyone as unhappy as we are." And he would lead us to the window, where we'd watch people pass by in the street until we cheered up.

You don't need cry for others its worthless.