Quotes About Compassion

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Service is what life is all about.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.