Quotes About Compassion

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn't make us any less worthy than when we didn't feel that way.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.