Quotes about Compassion

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

Obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.