Quotes About Compassion

People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.

I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.

I believe most people are inherently good, but overcoming our nature is what separates us from the animals.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.

I was crying on the back-porch swing. You came out with a corsage of fresh forget-me-nots and roses, and a handkerchief. You told me any guy worth my time would always come to me with flowers and a handkerchief. One to make me smile, and the other to dry my tears, because a smart guy knows women need to cry as much as they need to laugh.

Accepting what people are, what they can't change and loving them with every part of yourself anyway. That's what love is about." He glared at Elaine. "You take that away from him, you make him believe that kind of love doesn't exist…It would be better for you to shoot him rather than destroy him inch by inch, year after year. If you do that, you're not saving his soul, you're killing it. If you'd look into his eyes for once, you'll see it. How we love is our soul.

I know, sweetheart. I wish I could take away your fear, but the only way I know to do it is to help you face it. I'd face it for you if I could.

When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility to look after her.

Tell him... You think it's kinder not to, but it isn't.

You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt. We all can, love. We all can.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

No mi krš?ani upu?eni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mu?en pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mu?enja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od povijesti udaljeni mit, nikakav Platonovi idejni Bog, nikakva gnosti?ka soteriologija i nikakav apstraktni govor o povijesnosti naše egzistencije ne mogu nam vratiti onu nedužnost koju smo u toj povijesti izgubili.

Trpljenje patnikâ nije ništa veliko ni uzvišeno; u svome korijenu ono je sve drugo samo ne solidarno trpljenje, ono nije naprosto znak ljubavi, nego je daleko više naznaka za to da se više ne može ljubiti.

Nismo li možda tijekom vremena tuma?ili krš?anstvo suviše isklju?ivo kao religiju osjetljivu za grijeh te u skladu s tim premalo osjetljivu za trpljenje?

If you want to know yourself,Just look how others do it;If you want to understand others,Look into your own heart.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

punishment—shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable—traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop.

If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn't kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.

It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war—it was part of the point.

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?

At the start of the Second World War, the English poet W. H. Auden—when he looked out over the new technologies of destruction that had been created by humans—warned: "We must love one another, or die.

To the prohibitionists, Hannah is a failure, because she continued using drugs. To the Portland, she was a success, because she knew she was loved. One day, a very senior government minister came to visit the safe injection rooms, and to meet the addicts. He asked Liz: "What percentage of people who use this place would you consider to be write-offs?" She paused and looked at him, trying to figure out how to tell him that the answer is none.

It's the twenty-first-century version of Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake." Let them be present.