Compassion Quotes

"We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance." "A society without mothers is a society that has lost respect for life and has ceased to care about life." "Misery and suffering in the world can be reduced through human effort and the example set by it is infectious." "The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers" "We cannot be content to sit back and watch as some are subjugated by domination and violence because we are all part of one human family" "Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him" "Ennobling sorrow melts the heart to love" "Love seeketh not itself to please" "I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community" "God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the heart" "Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment" "Find the best in everybody. No one is all evil or all bad" "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person." "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil... there is no other story" "There is less harm in the crime itself than in the callousness, cruelty, and indifference of most people towards those who commit it." "The healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers" "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking" "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." "Selfish people are in a hurry to get happiness and do not pause to consider the happiness of others." "It is never too late to be tender to the young."