Compassion Quotes

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." "The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference" "What happens when people open their hearts? They get better" "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." "You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." "We are on earth to help others; what the others are here for, I don't know " "Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent " "Love does not dominate; it cultivates " "I'm glad you're a strong person and that you're capable of taking care of others. I think you should always be happy and feel good about yourself and not just for making other people happy." "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance" "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs" "When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be." "Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good." "Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind." "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously. Most of the cruelty in the world comes from people who are miserable with themselves." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." "Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other" "When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul." "The measure of love is to love without measure"