I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people. - Anthony Hopkins
Always try to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Have a heart. Be compassionate. Everyone has a story. Choose kindness no matter what is being dished out. Try your best to remember this when you find being compassionate is too hard for you.
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. - Harry Browne
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. - Harry Browne
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
If we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger, pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine. - Goldie Hawn
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. - Will Smith
Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. - Stephen Covey
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes. - Jane Goodall
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved. - Jane Goodall
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. - Jane Goodall
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees. - Jane Goodall
Do everything you have to do, but not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with love, compassion, humility, and devotion.
Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.
If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good. Make use of your sadness to grow. When sadness sets in, if you become more compassionate, more caring, and more loving, you have some sense in you.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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.
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