#compassion

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#nothing #some #system #wrong

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#compassion #distraction #embrace #engage #feel

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#been #being #compassionate #dad #down

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#should #those #tough #who #will

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#any #attraction #children #compassion #feel

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#began #compassionate #ends #feel #how

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong