Quotes About Compassion

take pleasure in your growth, in which no one can accompany you, and be kind-hearted towards those you leave behind

Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.

Perhaps every terror is, in its deepest essence, something that needs our recognition or help.

What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.

Please don't think that the person trying to comfort you is living untroubled among these simple, quiet words that sometimes do you good. His own life has plenty of trouble and sadness; it lags far behind his words. And yet, were that not true, he would never have been able to find them.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.

for at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

The wish to improve another person's situation presupposes a level of insight into his conditions that even a poet does not possess with regard to a character he himself invented.

At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all

When we meet others, we should not think of ourselves as superior and look down on them or pity them, but see them as the source of our happiness.

I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear.

What is wrong with this gentleman, Sylvester?' the tall one said. 'A man's dying outside!' I said. 'Someone is always dying,' the other one said. 'Yes, and it's good to die beneath God's great tent of sky.

Don't laugh at fools. Some are His.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Love, and you shall be loved.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves