Quotes About Compassion

To forgive does not mean we condone the misdeeds of another. We can dedicate ourselves to making sure they never happen again. But without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past…. Forgiveness is a way to move on.

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

There are enough critical voices in this world; you don't have to be one of them.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

If I'd never found any other reason to advocate pacifism, this would be it; it is so much easier on the nerves not to perpetually be circling your fellow man, hand warily on the hilt of your knife.

True spirituality is not trying to make ourselves spiritual through faith, but it is living out our faith in service to God and neighbor.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M. by Donald Justice Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora at 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on

To treat the inhumane world with ridicule is to make it tolerable.

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they're obviously missing something from their lives.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.

If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all. If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.