Quotes About Compassion

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means. ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87

All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught in such thoughts, we would really see it racing. But positive thoughts like love, patience, tenderness, compassion, and understanding are slow - not turbulent, rushing brooks of thinking, so to speak but broad rivers that are calm, clear, and deep.

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature.

To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are racing through life engrossed in all the things we need to do before sunset. In fact, I would go to the extent of saying that a person who is always late will find it difficult to love; he will be in too much of a hurry.

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities

to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

She had stood by and said nothing, but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.

é melhor, ou até mesmo tão bom, reunir um monte de gente para fazer o que todo mundo gostaria de fazer por si mesmo. Tenho certeza de que prefiro dar a Jamie um... Um bom livro agora, do que ter uma instituição que o faça, e sei que ele gostaria que eu também fizesse isso. [Pollyana à Sra. Carew]

Antes, quando eu estava contente com as coisas, eu era feliz. Mas agora, com o Jamie... Eu estou contente por ter tapetes, quadros, coisas boas para comer, que eu posso andar e correr, ir para a escola e tudo mais. Mas quanto mais eu estou feliz por mim mesma, mais triste eu sou por ele.

One admirable thing about my grandparents was their ability to forgive infinitely.

qué mundo es este en que los migrantes, al verse imposibilitados para mínimamente sobrevivir, pierden su condición de humanos, adultos, racionales?

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

No human being is illegal.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Peace is our gift to each other.