Quotes About Compassion

God is just like Jesus – exactly like him!

When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off his shoes when he drew nigh the burning bush of human pain.

eu não odeio nada nem ninguém - perdono a tutti, como na ópera.

Mas a tristeza é necessária à vida, acudiu D. Tomásia, que abrira os olhos logo à entrada do marido. As dores alheias fazem lembrar as próprias, e são um corretivo da alegria, cujo excesso pode engendrar o orgulho.

we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

Simão Bacamarte entendeu desde logo reformar tão ruim costume; pediu licença à câmara para agasalhar e tratar no edifício que ia construir todos os loucos de Itaguaí e das demais vilas e cidades, mediante um estipêndio, que a câmara lhe daria quando a família do enfermo o não pudesse fazer.

Cada qual sabe amar a seu modo; o modo pouco importa; o essencial é que saiba amar.

Eu gosto de olhos que sorriem, de gestos que se desculpam, de toques que sabem conversar e de silêncios que se declaram.

Quando a gente se aborrece dos homens toma sempre a afeição dos animais, que têm a vantagem de não discorrer, nem intrigar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Pois, francamente, só agora entendia a comoção que me davam essas e outras confidências. A emoção era doce e nova, mas a causa dela fugia-me, sem que eu a buscasse nem suspeitasse.

A amizade é o melhor pretexto, até hoje inventado, para que um indivíduo pretenda tomar parte na felicidade de outro.

The poor thing was suffering cruelly because cancer is indifferent to a person's virtues.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't.

The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.