Quotes About Compassion

It wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just a little kid.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

Man's inhumanity to man.Makes countless thousands mourn!

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman, though they may gang a kennin wrang, to step aside is human

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Amish are known to be abstainers, law-abiding. They're also deeply devout Christians. Why didn't they stop their truck and come back to help?

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.

One of the tenants here has a tumor on his face. It covers most of his right eye. Where I come from, it would have been treated and removed. So I find myself thinking, what if I get sick? Something as simple as appendicitis could kill me. I've had all the shots, but what happens when the vaccines wear off? As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal.

Going deeper into their Otherness, feeling what they feel, we can discover what makes them different and learn about human nature.

His approach in these cases was to imagine that each person, no matter how twisted, has a reason for what they've become, a logic that makes sense to them. In their own way, they are striving for fulfillment, but irrationally. By stepping back and imagining their story from the inside, Chekhov demythologized the brutes and aggressors; he cut them down to human size. They no longer elicited hatred but rather pity.

But it would be wise to practice instead the opposite, what the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called Mitfreude—"joying with." As he wrote, "The serpent that stings us means to hurt us and rejoices as it does so; the lowest animal can imagine the pain of others. But to imagine the joy of others and to rejoice at it is the highest privilege of the highest animals.

People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

by embracing the full picture of themselves, their self-love is more real and complete. From this stronger inner position, they can turn their attention outward more often and more easily. This attention goes in one of two directions, and sometimes both.

those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Lo que se hace por amor se hace siempre más allá del bien y del mal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Más allá del bien y del mal