Quotes About Compassion

Only a piece of machinery could possibly carry all the world's pain. Only a machine, simple, effective and just. But if everything were to happen mechanically, our prayers wouldn't be needed.

Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

Literatura pomaga nam rozpozna? si? w cudzych istnieniach".

Father Chmielowski, you seem to care more about books than you do about people,

A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

it is not always that we want friends to be so reasonable and rational about things. Sometimes we want people we like to agree with us, to say yes, you have been hard done by, regardless.

Learn the luxury of doing good

Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome.

Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom.

There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance.

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

Without a moral center -- there can be no string family. And without family, we one and all suffer.

No person should ever have to witness so much death,

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.