Quotes About Compassion

arte inmoral de suprimir al otro en lugar de intentar ponerse en su lugar)…

en qué consiste tratar a las personas como a personas, es decir, humanamente? Respuesta: consiste en que intentes ponerte en su lugar.

El amor sin ternura es puro afán de dominio y de autoafirmación hasta lo destructivo. La ternura sin amor es sensiblería blanda incapaz de crear nada.

Hay que ser imbécil, moralmente imbécil, para suponer que es mejor vivir rodeado de pánico y crueldad que entre amor y agradecimiento!

Quien vive bien debe ser capaz de una justicia simpática, o de una compasión justa

Bernard Shaw solía decir: «No siempre hagas a los demás lo que desees que te hagan a ti: ellos pueden tener gustos diferentes.»

Se trata de sentir simpatía por el otro (o si prefieres compasión, pues ambas voces tienen etimologías semejantes, la una derivando del griego y la otra del latín)

No preguntes qué derecho tiene el otro a tu hospitalidad; sólo recuerda que tú también la necesitaste y la obtuviste; si no la obtuviste, recuerda que querías obtenerla y trata al otro como tú deseabas ser tratado, no como efectivamente te trataron.

Io sarò anche Satana, Belzebù, quello che vi pare, ma so cos'è il dolore perchè io stesso l'ho provato e lo provo tuttora per la mia solitudine, per l'odio che hai suscitato contro di me. Insomma, ti confesso che quel poveretto mi fa compassione. E che vorrei dargli una mano.

Cada vez que te sientas inclinado a criticar a alguien- me dijo- ten presente que no todo el mundo ha tenido tus ventajas.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have. Past

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and saving the chicken but I don't know how exactly since I am not bold. I only know I believe in the complete chicken. You think about the complete chicken for a while.

Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.

I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.

Listen, lady, he said in a high voice, if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now. His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.

She was seeing that her father spent his last years with his own family and not in a decayed boarding house full of old women whose heads jiggled. She was doing her duty. She had brothers and sisters who were not.

Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.

se retiraban a lugares solitarios para llorar a los pies de Cristo todas las lágrimas de un corazón que la existencia había herido

Het is misschien monsterlijke hoogmoed, maar de duivel hale me als ik niet evenveel sympathie voor de luizen die een bedelaar opvreten, als voor de bedelaar zelf. Ik ben er trouwens even zeker van dat de mensen evenmin elkaars broeders zijn als de blaadjes in het bos gelijk zijn.: ze worden samen door de wind geteisterd, dat is alles.

What we do know is that followers of Jesus Christ will always want to remember that the true and righteous judgments of the Lord are applicable to every side of every conflict.