Quotes About Compassion

Nothing is more attractive than being like Jesus

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

If you would be loved, be lovable

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

Only monsters would harm a cat.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. Promiscuous almsgiving, without inquiring into the worthiness of the applicant, is bad in every sense. But to search out and quietly assist those who are struggling for themselves, is the kind that "scattereth and yet increaseth.

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

Being human doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're subject to the same little quirks and foibles as the rest of us—for which you should be grateful.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right out of you. It's exhausting.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

I don't eat animals." "What's the problem with eating animals? Animals don't have problems eating other animals. You ever have a cat? Those suckers are the sweetest, most adorable little bloodthirsty killers in the world.

And this, Magozzi thought, was the dreaded black place. The desperate place where people always went when anger and fear couldn't find any other answer, the place that obliterated logic and compassion and reason and all the other higher functions of the human mind that civilization had fostered.

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.