Jean Paul Quotes

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion is a two way street.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

People need to have compassion for others.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

We are not by nature cruel.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.