#compassion

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#concern #socialism #unfortunate #weakness

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#compassion #congress #courage #ever #halls

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#competitive #country #down #generation #good

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#compassion #courage #destroy #disaster #even

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #nature #philosophy #beauty

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#compassion #heartwarming #love #pg- #beauty

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#justice #mercy #death

One love, one heart, one destiny. ↗

— Bob Marley

#compassion #destiny #heart #humanity #inspirational

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love