Quotes About Compassion

grant your mercy, lend me your strength. Mercy, on an indrawn breath, Strength as he breathed out.

Oh, Traspié, Traspié, muchacho -dijo con la voz cargada de alivio-. Pensaba que te habíamos perdido. Pensaba que te habíamos hecho algo peor que dejarte morir. Sus viejos brazos eran fuertes, tensos, a mi alrededor. Fui considerado con el anciano. No le dije que era precisamente lo que habían hecho.

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

I knew how small creatures that were too different were treated. I'd seen crippled chicks pecked to death, witnessed cows that nudged away a weak calf, the runt piglet pushed away from a nipple. I had no reason to think that people were any better than animals in that regard.

Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

If a human's life can be measured in counted coins, then that worth can be diminished, a copper at a time, until no value is left. When an old woman is worth less than the food she eats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well.

forgiven,' she said quietly to herself. She sounded ill with it. With an oddly gentle finality, she added, 'You

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

They were petty and selfish." "They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

No, he has never struck me. But there are many ways for a man to be hard-handed with a woman that do not involve striking her.

Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513

Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then," she replied sweetly.

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.

It is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And

I perceived then that my father had already known these things, but that by asking about them in front of us, he had given Spink the opportunity to share his family's straitened circumstances without making it seem that he sought our pity.

Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.