Quotes About Compassion

I decline to go fox hunting.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm. "I can fix you if you're ever broken.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.