Compassion Quotes - Page 56

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

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.