Quotes About Compassion

I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's … CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick …

We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round.

Surely love, if there was any such thing, should be ease and tenderness...

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea.

You know, I used to think, 'Life is great, but people suck,' but now I've had to learn the opposite, 'Life sucks, but people are great.

Would we ever learn to get along with each other?

Near as I can tell, God intended me to be a witness. Like those little children who survived the concentration camps. He wanted me to tell my story, reach out a hand to anyone I could. And I've done that, thirty years or so.

That you love her as you love yourself. You recognize that she has good and bad points, just like each of us does. And that your love for her has to be equal to your love for yourself. You don't owe it to her to turn your whole life upside down to take care of her—just to make sure that she's safe, and well-cared for, that she has a roof over her head, food in her belly, and that she knows you love her.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.

I now know that my pain is not more sacred, my suffering is not more noble, and the injustice I endure is not more ill-deserved than someone else's.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Have you ever stopped to think, Clare," Irene demanded, "how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving-kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

He had met him before, that certain down-at-heel vet growing stooped from carrying a thirty-five-pound monkey on his back.

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

never get hurt for few people who don't love you ,turn around and you will see a million of them who cares for you

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.