Quotes About Compassion

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

be helpful to them that ain't got it so good. Dr. Dooley encouraged us at St. Mary's College in So. Bend, IN to do this. That was in 1961!

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

Send the haters all my love. X and O.

Other niggas situations, they are all depressing.

So cry if you need to, but I cant stay to watch you. Thats the wrong thing to do.

I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time.

Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone's life. It's what we all want and struggle with and fight for.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Yankee private Henry Struble was not only listed as a casualty after Antietam but assigned a grave after his canteen was found in the hands of a dead man he had stopped to help. After the war ended, Struble sent flowers every Memorial Day to decorate his own grave, to honor the unknown soldier it sheltered and perhaps to acknowledge that there but for God's grace he might lie.

Those who ask for mercy," he answered coldly, "are too weak to deserve it.

it's all one single grief.

Exploring a transformational scenario is a demanding exercise in social imagination that requires compassion, persistence, and patience. This is difficult work.

If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition . . . then he will always think of other human beings as enemies, or at least as opponents who must be pushed out of the way . . . and the object of life becomes not to help others up but to push them down.[7]

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events.

I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.

I think if God came down and gave us His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.

I understand that one person in 100,000 suffers from the disease and I am also aware that there are 100,000 members of my union, the Screen Actors Guild, who are working every day. I think, therefore, it is in some way considerate of me that I have taken on the disease for myself, thus protecting the remaining 99,999 members from this fate.

Ces larmes jaillissaient de la rencontre entre le meilleur de l'homme et le souvenir des horreurs qui avaient failli conduire l'humanité à sa ruine.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.