Quotes about Compassion

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all.

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

O thou who art the sparrow's friend, he said, have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen.

To love your neighbor is to see your neighbor. To see somebody, really to see somebody, you have to love somebody.