Quotes about Compassion

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.

The measure of a man's truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.