compassion Quotes

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.