Quotes About Compassion

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.

Robert A. Heinlein

I pity the poverty of your wealth.

The more you love, the more you can love—and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing—and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.

Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.

Nevertheless, once you pick up a stray cat and feed it, you cannot abandon it. Self-love forbids it. The cat's welfare becomes essential to your own peace of mind—even when it's a bloody nuisance not to break faith with the cat.

Nobody paid attention; they walked around or stepped over – except one woman carrying a baby, who stopped, kicked him carefully in face, then went down ramp.

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.

He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.

One damn sure thing!—he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.

There is no such thing as a humane war.

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful—just stupid.)

the unkindest thing you can do for a hungry man is to give him food.

Well, 'hate' is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.

Almost all crime depends on the acquiescence of the victim. If the victim refuses his assigned role, the criminal is placed at a disadvantage - one so severe, that it usually takes an understanding and compassionate judge to set things right. I had broken the rules. I had fought back.