Quotes About Compassion

Een mens die een ander mens van zijn vrijheid berooft, is een gevangene van de haat, opgesloten achter de tralies van vooroordelen en kleingeestigheid.

learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.

Siempre he sabido que en el fondo del corazón de todos los seres humanos hay misericordia y generosidad. Nadie nace odiando a otra persona por el color de su piel, su procedencia o su religión. El odio se aprende, y si es posible aprender a odiar, es posible aprender a amar, ya que el amor surge con mayor naturalidad en el corazón del hombre que el odio.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made in the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love." - Nelson Mandela

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

A person gives the same things which he/she has preserved inside them. You cannot get love from cruel person similarly you can't be hurt from kind heart person.

The one thing in life that costs us nothing is a smile - give it away and makes someones day.

Mercy is not getting what we deserve, and grace is getting what we don't deserve.

Praise the Lord, O my soul; in my inmost being, I praise Your holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul! We do not forget all Your benefits. For You are the One who forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases, who redeems our lives from the pit and crowns us with love and compassion, who satisfies our desires with good things so that our youth is renewed like the eagle's! . .

Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up.

Mr. White, Heath's sixth-grade teacher, once told the class that hatred wasn't the worst emotion; the worst emotion was indifference. She'd not understood what Mr. White meant until this night.

Women could sit with grief, hold its hands, watch it pour from the eyes of friends and children, lie down beside it and help it to rest. Their delicate strength would weave a net strong as spun steel, keep the widow Castle from hitting bottom.

Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You were where you were. You went where you went. You did what you could. Mostly, people were better off after you showed up than before.

One cannot be kind in any meaningful way over any length of time without also being good.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

The next two who are called are also related. These are the brothers, James and John, James the just, the righteous judge, and his brother John, the beloved. Justice to be wise must be administered with love, ever turning the other cheek and at all times returning good for evil, love for hate, nonviolence for violence.

Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life. Everything else is commentary.

He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all." (Romans 11:32, RSV)

Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another.

Awake from the sleep of condemnation and prove the principle of life. Stop not only your judgement of others but your condemnation of yourself.

Most of us think that we are kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble; but an uncritical observation of our reactions to life will reveal a self that is not all kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble. And it is is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change…