all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected of lamenting the victory of the working class or |what was equally sinful| giving way individualistically to inner sorrows.

The tons of steel of the Russian tanks were nothing compared with it. For there is nothing heavier compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.

The best work of all is when you are achieving your own goals by helping others to achieve theirs.