Quotes and Sayings about Mercy & Compassion

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

Sebastian Fairmont in First Kill - Season 1 Episode 2

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

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Pain

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

Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Blake

Love

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

Pope Francis

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

Dalai Lama

Love

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

George Washington

Criminal Minds

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

Philippe in Intouchables

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

Tarana Burke

Empathy

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

Qiyana, Empress of the Elements in League of Legends

Empathy

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.

John Hickenlooper

Democracy Empathy

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

Steven Pinker

Humanity Empathy

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.

Sterling K. Brown

Empathy

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

George McGovern

Neighbors Empathy

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

Maya Angelou

Empathy

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

Meryl Streep

Empathy

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

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Death Selflessness

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.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

Breakup Selflessness

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

Bob Marley

Life Selflessness

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

General Iroh in The Legend of Korra - Season 2 Episode 10

Problems Selflessness

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

Lewis Carroll

Friendship Selflessness

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy - IX

Selflessness Being nice

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

Dalai Lama

Life Selflessness

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

J.M. Barrie

Selflessness Positive Quotes Being nice

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

Taylor Swift

Selflessness

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

Kanye West

Selflessness

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

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

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.

Bob Marley

Love

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.

Calliope Burns in First Kill - Season 1 Episode 1

Monsters

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Revenge Justice

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.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

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.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain Time

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."

Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

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

Abraham Lincoln

Morality

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

William Blake

Ambition Character Birds

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

Pope Francis - August 2023

Getting up Helping

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

Sleeping Meditation

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Solitude & Loneliness

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

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

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."

Driss in Intouchables

Art

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.

Calliope Burns in First Kill - Season 1 Episode 1

Girls

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