Quotes About Compassion

Joe shrugs off his hurt. "Knock, knock?" he says. "Not now, Joe." "Come on, man! Knock, knock." I give in. "Who's there?" "Your friend, Joe, who's always here for you.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine if everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what.

In a battle, some soldiers of Guru Gobind Singh saw a Sikh named Ghanaya giving water to the enemy. They went to the Guru with their complaint. Ghanaya was called and questioned. Ghanaya's response was that he had not helped the enemy: as he went around the battlefield, he saw no friend or foe but only the Guru's face.

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.

Il disparut à jamais, cet être sans défense à qui personne n'avait jamais témoigné d'affection, ni porté le moindre intérêt, non, personne, pas même l'un de ces naturalistes toujours prêts à épingler la plus banale des mouches pour l'examiner au microscope.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.

You have no love for the good, then force yourself to do good, without any love for it. That will be counted an even greater merit for you than for one who does good for the love of it. Simply force yourself a few times then the love will come to you as well. Believe me, everything can be done.

would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame

Take any man you like of the persons whom you thus term rascals. That man none the less remains a human being. That being so, how can one refuse to defend him when all the time one knows that half his errors have been committed through ignorance and stupidity? Each of us commits faults with every step that we take; each of us entails unhappiness upon others with every breath that we draw—and that although we may have no evil intention whatever in our minds.

Non si poteva dire, tuttavia, che la natura del nostro eroe fosse tanto severa e inflessibile e che i suoi sentimenti fossero ottusi a tal punto che egli non conoscesse né pietà né compassione; sentiva questa e quella, e avrebbe anche voluto aiutare, solo, questo non doveva tradursi in una somma significativa, per non toccare quei denari che era stato deciso non sarebbero stati toccati...

Therefore, if it really be that you have no genuine love for doing good, do good by forcing yourself to do so.

in short, I sensed in myself those strange feelings that come over us when for the first time we enter the dwelling of a widower whom we had known before inseparable from his lifelong companion. These feelings are like seeing before us a man we had always known in good health, now lacking a leg.

Jamais la pitié ne s'empare aussi fortement de nous qu'au spectacle de la beauté atteinte par le souffle délétère de la débauche.

Tatl? gençlik y?llar?ndan, ileri ya?lar?n sert, kat? y?llar?na giderken tüm insanc?l e?ilimlerinizi, duygular?n?z? yan?n?za almay? unutmay?n, yolda b?rakmay?n onlar?, sonra yerlerinden kald?ramazs?n?z. Hemen ileride sizi beklemekte olan ya?l?l?k korkunçtur, hiçbir ?eyi geri vermez! Mezar bile ondan daha merhametli, daha lütufkard?r...

Créame, Paviel Ivanovich, que mientras no se abandone aquello por lo que se devoran y se matan la gente en la tierra, y mientras no se piense en el bienestar espiritual, no habrá felicidad ni bienestar en la tierra.

Exist? taine ale sufletului: oricât de mult s-ar îndep?rta de drumul cel drept un r?t?citor, orcât s-ar înr?i în sufletul s?u un criminal iremediabil, oricât ar persista în via?a sa dezm??at?, dac? îl dojene?ti ?i-i ar??i calit??ile, pe care chiar el le-a f?cut de ru?ine, totul se cutremur? f?r? voie în el ?i omul se simte zguduit.

Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

Hey pals We need the love.

We can only share what we have at hand already.

If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?