Quotes About Compassion

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the trouble of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

You live your life, you try to live compassionately, and that's the end of it. You do a little more than you should have to in order to be a good person, but you don't go making big changes in the world, trying to fix things. It presumes too much to do so. There's only this: if everyone acts quietly, compassionately, things will go a little better than they would have otherwise. But people will still suffer.

I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may connect them, though pity, compassion, hope may marry one thing to another, still all that is in process cannot be judged, and that which has passed has gone beyond judgment, which leaves us again, with lives and belongings, places, shuttling here and there, hapless, benighted, discordant.

reason and sensical behavior are not always necessary if there exists some small flood of kindness.

The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

It is so easy for humans to be cruel, and they leap to it. They love to do it. It is an exercise of all their laughable powers

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.

Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up

never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.

Of justice you will find none.... To judge is evil. To mete justice, more appalling still. Act from compassion and you will do better than to devise any code or facade of justice.

No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.