Quotes On Compassion

Empathy blurs judgment; it clouds truth. Sympathy allows compassion with clarity. We need more sympathy, not empathy.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I am for people. I can't help it.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.