Quotes About Compassion

No one can accept the indiscriminate order of cruelty.

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

Buddy had spent a great deal of time at the children's ward at the hospital over on the Turnpike. Every Saturday, during Ben's magic act, he was pulled out of a hat that was old and smelled of alfalfa and sweat. Buddy was used to bright lights and people crying, and he was always well behaved. He had never once bitten a child, not even when he'd been poked or teased. Now, he rose onto his back legs and balanced carefully, just as he'd been taught.

It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

Mrs. Farrell told me that no man was a monster, not even Heathcliff, and that most people's misdeeds were rooted in the treatment they'd received in the world.

Once I saw him crying over a deer a hunter had shot and left to die. I was stunned to see my strong father cry. But now if he were here, he would tell me that real strength has no boundaries. The more you feel, the stronger you are, I hear him say to me.

Who made it your job to feel guilty for every bad thing that happens?

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.

One of the cruelest children had glued a nametag to the mouse's back. Sali had been scrawled in crude letters, but Sally took not the slightest pleasure in the misspelling of her name. She had cried over the little curled-up body, with its tiny whiskers and perfect paws, but when her teacher had asked what was wrong, she'd only shrugged, as though she had lost the power of speech.

I had always done as he asked, not because I was bound to do so by duty but because I saw the depth of who he was and how he himself suffered.

She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse.

To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.

Into this cake Lila had baked three gifts: a cool hand to test for fevers, a kiss with the power to chase away nightmares, a heart that can tell when it's time to let go.

deep inside could only be deciphered by someone who understood how easily a heart could be broken. "Wake up," Shelby would

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

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

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.

It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.

I would only understand her grief when my child caused me my own.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together.

In 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.