Quotes About Compassion

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. "You should not laugh at them," he said. "They are beautiful to each other.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

The best we can do for others is work on ourselves.

You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.

There's something singularly moving about that moment when this man—deaf and sick and misanthropic and self-torturing, at the same time one of the most extraordinary and boundlessly generous men our species has produced—greets us person to person, with glass raised, and hails us as friends.

He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His

Als ze verder slenteren, zegt Dirk verontschuldigend tegen Michiel: 'Het heeft immers geen zin erover te praten.' 'Nee,' zegt Michiel, 'het heeft geen zin. Eén ding heeft maar zin.' 'Wat dan?' 'Nooit meer in een oorlog vechten, alleen nog tegen oorlog.' 'Zo is het,' zegt Dirk.

Want medelijden is de ergste vijand van de liefde.

Dat is het grootste van dieren, dat ze niet kunnen grienen. Als je huilt heb je een slecht geweten, dan ben je in gebreke gebleven. Een dier stelt nooit teleur. Een dier valt niks te verwijten. Je kan je alleen een klootzak voelen dat je zo'n sentimentele etter bent geweest.

It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella.

No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn't lessen our own heartache. It doesn't diminish the fact that right then, you're dealing with one of the worst things that's ever happened to you.

Pity was for those who couldn't do anything about it.

We only break the law to help people. Well, and maybe to have some fun.

Deputy Breaux didn't so much as raise an eyebrow—just leaned over and grabbed Celia's shoulders and helped Carter haul her out. You had to love a man who really understood his town and his people.

The problem with society is that most people are too comfortable in their own lives to even try to imagine the difficulty of someone

I think the absence of hope removes all empathy. Then all you want is for the rest of the world to suffer like you do.

in except the medical staff.

Gertie reached over and patted my hand. "It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella." That pretty much summed it up.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.