Quotes About Compassion

If a parent is content with a child who has had his spirit completely broken by fear, then, for such a parent, punishment succeeds.

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right

Spare me from ending up in a dayroom with worn-out, incontinent old folk. Spare

La maladie et le deuil sont les meilleurs baromètres pour savoir ce que les gens pensent vraiment.

En cualquier contrato y en cualquier intercambio, ponte en el lugar del otro, pero con todo lo que sabes, y suponiéndote tan libre de necesidades como un hombre puede serlo, mira si en lugar, aprobarías ese intercambio o contrato

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Physical wounds don't matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn't bear

You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?" "I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.

Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.

Awaken the sleep, protect the weak, and guide the strong.

Ah!" Callie said, seizing on this, "what we expect of him. Couldn't that be the problem right there? Have we tried to attune ourselves to his needs? Have we taken the trouble to understand where he's coming from?

Humour is a cog in the machine we call love.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Pirkei Avot 1:14)

Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be. Simple. Obvious. But true.

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

Then your job is to be a sister...All you have to do is this: Listen. Have patience. And love.

There is a dearth of conversation that revolves simply around expressions of caring, sharing, and loving.

If you are ever sad and think that life is hard, remember that you are not alone...

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.