Quotes about Compassion
There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
— Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
I need thy hate as much as thy love.
— Henry David Thoreau