Quotes about Compassion

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.

You must give time to your fellow men -- even if it's a little thing, do something for others -- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. --

We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Whatever you have received more than others in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life, all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. You must pay a price for it. You must render in return an unusually great sacrifice of your life for other life.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere

Ethik ist ins Grenzenlose erweiterte Verantwortung gegen alles, was lebt.