compassion Quotes

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.