Quotes About Compassion

should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering—you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

Nobody could fathom the suffering the troubles had brought people, and all the terrible things that had happened.

remember that a person might do bad things ut that that didn't mean they were a bad person

The great (American-definition) liberal Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948 that "we must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes," because "when once we have made our fellowmen the objects of our enlightened interest [we] go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."18 Every mother knows the dangers. And when she loves the beloved for the beloved's own sake, she resists them.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face.

From one bell all the bells toll.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

And maybe he had more room for me in his heart.

I know knives and guns are not the answer. Once we get a fight like that started, who will have the power to stop it? How many deaths will be enough?

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. "Hey man, what are you playing?" "Super Busy Hospital, could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery. This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times."

Friends are forever ,we never have enemies forever!!

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

To place patients of different illnesses in the same ward is to use people to kill each other. approx quote, possibly on L Hotel Dieu in Paris.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

A mother's love is greater than a child's confusion.

I still recall clearly. Two doctors were talking to me about her in front of her, as though she couldn't comprehend the language. They then turned to her using baby talk.

Does my brother's presence inconvenience you?" he asked the priest. "Not at all," the twitching man replied. Father Berold's face was still for an instant. This time the curve of his lips was natural, and filled with compassion. "I recognize a fellow sufferer. I have added him to my prayers." Faucon eyed the priest for a long moment. Of such mettle were saints forged.

I'm not trying to take your freedom. God knows you deserve it after being married to that monster. I don't want to trap you or hold you back or control you." He gently cupped her face. "I only want to love you, honey.