Quotes About Compassion

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.

people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

Never watch another woman burn

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.

Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.

Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain in the neck, but she never judged what she didn't understand and that Hollis knows, is rare. Unlike Alan and the boys in the village, she treated him fairly, but that doesn't mean he has to moan and bellyache down at the funeral parlor. Ashes to ashes, that's all there is. If you can't change a fact of life, then be smart enough to walk away from it.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

Mean people are meaningless.

If this was what angels observed when they gazed upon our world, how we might murder each other and cause one another agony, then I pitied them as I pitied no others.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

He's so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him.

When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.