Compassion Quotes

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate

Liberalism: To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed.

He who is strong, concedes.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.