Quotes About Compassion

the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

Every man has a right to be poor.

See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster.

Don't be stupid. Of course I'll help you. We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

How do you explain to someone that you understand their fear, then convince them that it's going to be all right? In my experience, the more you talk about what scares them, the worse it gets. There's not much to do but ride out the fear with them and try to keep them away from liquor and razor blades.

Maggie smiles at that and says, "Please don't upset her. She's fragile." "I'll be like cotton-candy kisses.

Look on the bright side. You didn't bleed all over my clean floor," Kasabian says. "Your floor was always my utmost concern.

Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Being compassionate is actually very brave because it involves taking an honest look at your own self. In order to feel compassion towards yourself, you must be willing to face your pain instead of burying your head in the sand. That's the essence of bravery.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Unutmay?n, bugün ne kadar bencil, zalim, duyars?z olmu?san?z olun, her nefes al???n?zda bir çiçe?i mutlu etmektesiniz.

Once you've caught a glimpse of the cosmos through the back doors of your church, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to suggest to a sweet young couple that they quit sleeping with other people.

have pity upon those hungering ones immediately around you who must find life through your sermon or they will never find it at all. If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice.

The priest should treat those whom he rules as a father treats very young children. We are not disturbed by children's insults or blows or tears; nor do we think much of their laughter and approval.

Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.

The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them, expectations of a standard of behavior higher than we require of ourselves. As humans, we seek naturally to help fellow creatures in distress. But most of us, whether we are conscious of it or not, expect something back—the flattery of helplessness and of need.

The universe wraps everything up inside it, in the end," Kaneta said. "Life, death, grief, anger, sorrow, joy. There was no boundary, then, between the living and the dead. There was no boundary between the selves of the living. The thoughts and feelings of everyone who was there at that moment melted into one. That was the understanding I achieved at that time, and it was what made compassion possible, and love, in something like the Christian sense.

As humans, we seek naturally to help fellow creatures in distress. But most of us, whether we are conscious of it or not, expect something back – the flattery of helplessness and of need.

We are to render good for evil," she urged the Huguenots. "Hate and Christianity are incompatible. We must seek peace with all.

She stood by his bedside and waited for him to die.