Quotes and Sayings about Mercy & Compassion

Compassion is not a weakness. It is a gift to be embraced.

If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.

Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.

Antoine: "These street guys have no pity."
Philippe: "That's what I want... no pity."

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

I do not lack empathy. Other people just need to be better.

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction "Love the neighbor as thyself."

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

For years, every time I'd close my eyes, I'd see monsters. Ones with claws as long as steak knives, teeth as sharp as glass. That was before I learned the worst ones always look human.

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Delphi: "What have you done?"
Scorpius: "I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity."

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

Sleep is the best meditation.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

I think a lot about how the world treats teenage girls. Like, everything that's good about us is a weakness. Our hearts, our emotions, our empathy, means we need to be protected.