Quotes About Compassion

Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

He had no interest in another person, in imagining what it might be like to be on the other side.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake.

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.

All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. In one small moment we had both lost the world, and there was no way to get it back.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.

Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. (If you mention anything about me, she said, tell people that.)

Ahora sabes por qué razón es inútil llorar. Tus lágrimas no se llevan tus penas, sino que alimentan la alegría de otros. Por eso has de aprender a tragártelas.

I am crying now, sobbing and laughing at the same time, seeing but not understanding this loyalty to my mother.

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be?

I hope you don't suffer forever from keeping love from your heart

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes.

Fear, I think, is the worst element of religions of all kinds. It is used to justify more fear, as well as hatred, lack of compassion, intolerance, and war.

But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?

Those are the five writing tips: Avoid clichés, avoid generalisations, find your own voice, show compassion, and ask the important questions.

My friend, my editor, still had the cancer. Each day she had to cross a terrible chasm, a bottomless hole of not knowing what to hope or believe. I tried to imagine what she saw, but I did not have her perspective.

If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp. —Plutarch

Espero que con el tiempo sea como él sin tener que pasar por todo lo que él ha pasado.

Aquel que es feliz puede hacer dichoso a los demás. Quien no pierde ni el valor ni la confianza, jamás perecerá por la miseria.