Quotes About Compassion

Más que un ejército hiriendo vence un héroe perdonando.

See how her expression changes when she looks at you? It's the love light shining from within...Lucky we are when we're seen through the light of love, be it shining in the eyes of human or beast. Some folks go all their days without ever seeing it directed at them. It's a splendid, special look. Cherish it. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care.

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart...

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

There's two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You're selfish both ways.

All distances are the same to those who don't meet.

If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.

No se aprende nada lastimando a los demás; solo aprendes cuando te lastiman a ti.

Everybody is born so they can learn how to live a good life loving everybody and being nice. Animals already know how to do this, so they don't have to stay as long.

Rafferty gripped his brother's shoulder and pushed him in the direction of his wife. She was rolling on the fresh-turned earth of Charlie's grave now, and her cries were no longer human. "Go hold her. Go on, even if she fights you, but, dammit, hold her." Go on, brother, before I do, because if I do, you ain't ever getting her back .

Kindness! I think that it is possible to kill with kindness....

I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are."19

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

Read everything and be kind.