Quotes About Compassion

Cuando la ley de amor y de caridad sea la ley de la humanidad, ya no habrá egoísmo: el débil y el pacífico ya no serán explotados ni pisoteados por el fuerte y el violento. Tal será el estado de la Tierra cuando, según la ley del progreso y la promesa de Jesús, venga a ser un mundo feliz por la expulsión de los malos.

La caridad es la virtud fundamental que debe sostener todo el edificio de las virtudes terrestres; sin ellas, las otras no existen. Sin la caridad no hay esperanza en una vida mejor, no hay interés moral que nos guíe; sin caridad no hay fe, porque la fe sólo es un rayo puro que hace brillar a un alma caritativa.

Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest.

Thank you. You're a kind person. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. People forget. Kindness doesn't cost a dime.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

You can't turn your back on people who need your help. It's a matter of decency.

Jeanne's sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapped these offerings in waxed paper and froze them in tight-lipped containers.... Helen was the baker of the family. What she felt could not be purchased. She grieved from scratch.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

Love is a powerful force. It can heal wounds, bridge divides, and bring hope to the hopeless.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse someone's actions, but it releases us from the pain they caused.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice. Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.

Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they can surprise you.

That thing you do where you don't give people a chance before they've had any chances in the first place.

Allison Winn Scotch

being family doesn't mean that you don't hurt each other. It means that you might nick each other from time to time, but you love one another anyway.

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.