Quotes About Compassion

I take care of your children like the priceless jewels that they are and I don't expect a thank-you for my efforts. You never have to worry about our kids because you know no harm will come to them in my care. Do you have any idea what a burden I have taken off your shoulders? The ability to relieve another human being of worry and anxiety is the single greatest act of love one can do for another and I do it for you.

If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What

Everything is a grace.

When you see an old lady who's on the wrong side of a good mood, now you know why. She has a past that you can't understand because you didn't live it. As she ages, her feet hurt, her back aches, her knees click, she cooks, she cleans, she worries, she waits, and then she gets sick and dies. Be kind, Anina. Someday you'll be the old lady.

Maybe you shouldn't blame anyone, but accept that this is your sister's story, and the ending belongs to her.

The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.

I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Man shall learn from man's lot.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.

Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.

Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.

One winter a Farmer found a Viper frozen and numb with cold, and out of pity picked it up and placed it in his bosom. The Viper was no sooner revived by the warmth than it turned upon its benefactor and inflicted a fatal bite upon him; and as the poor man lay dying, he cried, "I have only got what I deserved, for taking compassion on so villainous a creature." Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

The Flea, terrified, whimpered in a weak little voice, "Oh, sir! pray let me go; don't kill me! I am such a little thing that I can't do you much harm." But the Man laughed and said, "I am going to kill you now, at once: whatever is bad has got to be destroyed, no matter how slight the harm it does." Do not waste your pity on a scamp.