Quotes About Compassion

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well.

Well, said Eilonwy, you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot.

It would be a shame if you were killed. I should be very sorry. I know I wouldn't like it to happen to me.

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

But it's very thoughtful of you to say that. It shows a kind heart, and I think that's so much more important than being clever.

man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

There is a part of us in everyone else.

Morality has its equations too - they graph the curve of compassion between the quick and the dead.

They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.

He gestured toward her twisted leg. Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots. Do you think it maken them quiet and nice, to be broken?

She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health- For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, - and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But I hope you starve.

and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.

Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still.

No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler—

Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.

She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

You've ruined it now," she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan's outstretched hand. "It deserved to live, and to fly.

Frequently the new ones were damaged. They hobbled on canes or were ill. Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Some were orphans. All of them were welcomed.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.

Friends will take care of them. That's what friends do.