Quotes About Compassion

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

We are sitting here and conquering their hearts.

We always show our love to any baby whose name is Muhammad.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

El precepto de amar al prójimo desafía a los instintos determinados por la naturaleza; pero también desafía el sentido de la supervivencia establecido por la naturaleza, y el del amor a uno mismo, que lo resguarda.

La victimización rara vez humaniza a sus víctimas. Ser una víctima no garantiza autoridad moral.

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.

with towards none and charity for all...

with malice towards none and charity for all...

It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

How do you spell 'love'? - Piglet You don't spell it...you feel it. - Pooh

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

Love, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

Yesterday in his hospital room my husband asked urgently, Will you move me twenty-six thousand miles to the left?Yes, I said, not moving from my chair. After a moment he said, Thank you, adding in wonder, I didn't feel a thing.

If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the world, he will still seek another world to conquer. —SAADI, PERSIAN POET

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.