“Love doesn’t require that you choose what inhumanity you care about. Love is beyond religion, race & region. Love doesn’t label you because you want peace & safety for Palestinian children & Israeli children. Love that does not weep regarding slaughtered Palestinians is not Love.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”— Arthur H. Stainback, books.google.com
“We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassi…”— E. Max Frye, George Luz, Rick Gomez, imdb.com
“The world's a scary place, you know? It can be really sad and stressful and negative. I try to counterbalance that. I believe everything in life is energy. If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a…”— Ellen Degeneres, goodhousekeeping.com
“I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live in a world where such was the case.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“You don’t need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don’t need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don’t have to claim a soul to promote compassion.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate. Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com
“Gospel: Today Jesus says to those who wish to encounter him, 'Come and see!' Where is he inviting us to see him today? In the faces of those who are the most despised and rejected, in the faces of migrants and refugees and all forgotten ones. Come and see him there. He's waiting.”— James Martin, SJ, twitter.com
“I never said I hated anyone, but just because I feel sympathy, compassion, and forgiveness for others such as Hitler means I am now a monster? All for trying to open your eyes to the truth that Hitler was NOT as bad as he was painted out to be?”— Tila Tequila, metro.us
“What is what is this overwhelming feeling? Mercy. The act of compassion that we hold like power in our hands.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“Well, with so many people in the world deprived and unhappy, it doesn't seem like it would be fair to be cheerful.”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, "No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody." When you care about them, they'll open up to you. They'll tell you shit they'd never tell for money or for sex.”— Jim Brown, esquire.com
“Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else?”— Sarah J. Maas, Aelin Galathynius, amazon.com