Quotes About Compassion

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable.

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

Reading brings the world into your heart

Regardless of how one may feel about specific doctrines of other faith traditions, this fact alone—their service to millions of fellow human beings—makes them worthy of our deep respect. Their profound benefit to others is really the ultimate reason each of us, believers and non-believers alike, must accord deep respect to the world's great faith traditions.

Feeling called or needing to change people or situations "for their own good" is often quite aggressive and self-centered. Furthermore, in a world characterized by multiple diversities, the greatest compassion of all is to stop interfering so much with others, to stop claiming to know what everyone else should do and think, and to let them be who they are, just as we want to continue being who we are without exclusivists badgering us to imitate them.

We have to replace the love of power with the power of love.' 

Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.

I pray, I mean pray, that you will send a few dollars to your local SPCA to help those that have been abandoned, some mistreated.

What love had been given her she wished to give to others. Most times they didn't much want it but hounds, horses, cats, and dogs did and they were a gift from the gods, too.

For all we know compassion could be a conditioned response and one that continues to keep us oppressed by putting other people's troubles ahead of our own. Isn't that what good women always do, sacrifice? We could be making a virtue out of oppression.

My darling, she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life? I don't mind at all I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

let your love out

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone. -Matilda

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?

Da igual quién seas o qué aspecto tengas mientras alguien te quiera.

doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

There's someone over there needs a helping hand and it's our job to give it.