Quotes About Compassion

He loved her infinitely, and for that reason was able to love everything in the world as much as he loved her.

Një prej funksioneve më kryesore të një miku është (në një formë të butë e simbolike) të durojë ndëshkimet të cilat do të donim, por nuk kemi mundësi, t'ua japim armiqve tanë.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

To understand sympathetically, with one's whole beings, the state of mind of some one radically unlike oneself is very difficult—is, so far as I am concerned, impossible.

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

Let us be kind to one another.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere

en ningún caso debes entregarte a una morosa meditación sobre tus faltas. Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse.

My mother used to talk a lot about Christian charity; but somehow one never believed what she said, just as one never felt any love in all the self-sacrificing things she was always forcing herself to do—-no love, only duty.

Grief and remorse, compassion and duty - all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. 'Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. 'Don't you?' he repeated, but got no answer to his question.

BE KINDER THAN YOU HAVE TO BE.

Greedy contemplatives want to possess themselves of the light without bothering about compassion.

La felicidad es un patrón muy duro, especialmente la felicidad de los demás.

You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.

Love makes you accept the world; it puts an end to criticism.

Karuna. Karuna." And a semitone lower, "Attention.

Una de las principales funciones de un amigo es el sufrir (en forma más suave y simbólica) los castigos que queremos, y no podemos infligir a nuestros enemigos.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (aunque de una forma simbólica) los castigos que nos gustaría infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

Jedna od glavnih funkcija prijatelja je da izdrži (u blažem i simboli?nom obliku) kazne koje bismo želeli, ali ne možemo da izvršimo nad našim neprijateljima.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

There is no bond that can unite the divided but love.

Si los hombres supieran lo que se puede conseguir con una lágrima, los querríamos más y los arruinaríamos menos.