Quotes about Compassion

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.

Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

There are sick people everywhere, in wheelchairs and on benches. Shelby is embarrassed to be so healthy.

I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.

Our people believed every creature had a spark—nitzotz—that which was holy, and we were to show kindness and compassion to all beings, what we called baal chayyim. All animals praise God, as we do, with their songs and their voices. In midwinter, we dedicated a Sabbath to the birds, to offer our gratitude and acknowledge that it is their songs that have taught mankind how to chant and praise the glory of our Creator.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.

To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.

let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.