Quotes About Compassion

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.