Quotes About Compassion

We know, all of us, that there is more to our lives than markets and calculation. We have friends for friendship, fall in love for no rational reasons, behave as beasts or heroes even when we know it will not profit us.

Mi fanno pena le persone che sono sole unicamente nella stanza da bagno, e in nessun altro tempo e luogo.

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

She turned and walked a few steps, paused, then walked back to me. "You don't love him." Her face had utterly changed. From contained and still to wide-eyed and tremulous. "It would be bad enough if you did. But since you don't, please leave him to the person who does.

Nothing," she'd say, and go back to some busywork. But I knew what she was watching for. Colleen headed toward home, a small child's hand in hers. Love and reason

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection.

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.

To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes: Kindness to those who are happy Compassion for those who are less fortunate Honor for those who embody noble qualities Equanimity to those whose actions oppose your values

Peace is not just a prayer.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans

An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln's safety. Much to Coffin's surprise, the President "lifted his own hat from his head and bowed to the old man."24

Lo que me atormenta es mi propia ignorancia y mi incapacidad. En Ispahán aprenderé a ayudar a aquellos por los que ahora no puedo hacer nada.

The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.

I tell myself that some might be saved if I knew more.

Paul Slovic, another moral philosopher, agrees. He says empathy is a poor tool for improving the lives of others, because the human mind is bad at thinking about, and empathizing with, millions or billions of individuals