Quotes About Compassion

They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act.

Quién soy yo para decirle a quién ha de querer? Lo mío es querer y nada más.

be aware that the other children of the world are your responsibility as well. You must learn to see them, to feel them, as yours. Until you do, there is no way you can make your own child feel safe.

The reason I absolutely treasure literature is that it has taken me out of myself. Out of the narrow self, in which I could easily be stuck, and it has opened up the world to me. It has opened up the emotions of other people and their own aspirations and cares-Alice Walker

Tenían mucho cariño que repartir. Pero yo necesitaba cariño y tolerancia. Y de esto andaban escasos.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.

Maybe just living together, loving people makes them look like you, I said." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

A Dios no le parece indecente? Nooo. Dios lo quiso así. Mira, Dios ama todo lo que amas tú, además de otras cosas. Pero lo que más le agrada es la admiración. ¿Quieres decir que Dios es vanidoso? Nooo; vanidoso, no. Pero le gusta compartir lo bueno.

And she realized she did not care. She did not need to know the name humans had given the flower. To herself she called it friend and from then on looked for it along the banks of the river and felt concern for it's health.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...

Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take none of her rights.

There is a way forward and yes it is with a broken heart but it is our own way collectively convened, pondered, shared.

People fussing and fighting and pointing fingers at other people, and never even looking for no peace.

They had a lot of love to give. But I needed love plus understanding. They run a little short of that.

It does not matter to me: wherever you are grieving whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City my heart, too, is bruised and dragging. There used to be such a thing as melodrama when feelings could be made up, but now there is bare pain and sorrow, a sense of endlessly missed opportunities to smile and embrace The other.

Don't you dare show me any fear, they seemed to say to one another. Act like nothings happening that I should be frightened of! [...] this is what civilization really meant. What it came to, in the end. Abandonment of the animal fear of annihilation, the scent of suffering. Not wanting to see it in others, not wanting to face it in yourself.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.

Folks crying and fanning and trying to keep a stray eye on the children, but they don't stare at Sofia and her sisters. They act like this the way it always done. I love folks.

What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.

The dead are required to finish two tasks before all is over with them: one is to guide back to the path someone you left behind who is lost, because of your folly; the other is to host a ceremony so that you and others you have hurt may face eternity reconciled and complete.

Mas todas as coisas parecem brilhar porque eu tenho uma alma amorosa com a qual dividi-las.

What I love best about Shug is what she been through, I say. When you look in Shug's eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.