Quotes about Compassion

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.

Shared pain is more bearable.