Quotes About Compassion

Human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.

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The salvation of the human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Vaclav Havel

It just seems our species is happier when we are good. Goodness is not guaranteed. A life of principle requires practice…. from Unless, a novel by Carol Shields

If our hearts are open to seeing suffering, they can easily break under the weight of so much pain in our world. Our anger may threaten to consume us and turn us into people who hate, even though it was our love that broke our hearts open to begin with.

Compassion- it has its limits

My?l?, ?e tylko kochaj?c, widzimy cz?owieka takim, jakim jest naprawd?, w pi?knie jego najwy?szych mo?liwo?ci. ?e za?lepienie jest najlepszym widzeniem.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

Goddamn it, Harry. You can't go falling for someone right in front of me after I got my heart broken. It's just plain rude.

It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

LOVE Loving Others Via Eternity!!

A beautiful person is a person who can see the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

A generous person is a person who doesn't only give money, but also contributes his service to humanity.