Quotes About Compassion

Aparte de un marido e hijos, necesito otra cosa a la que dedicarme. No quiero haber vivido para nada, como la mayoría de las personas. Quiero ser de utilidad y alegría para los que viven a mi alrededor, aún sin conocerme. ¡Quiero seguir viviendo, aun después de muerta!

Cuando se fijan tanto en mi, primero me pongo arisca, luego triste y al final termino volteando mi corazón, con el lado malo hacia fuera, y el bueno hacia dentro buscando siempre la manera de ser como de verdad me gustaría ser y como podría ser... si no hubiera otra gente en este mundo

Toda persona tiene dentro de él algo bueno. La noticia es que usted no sabe lo grande que puede ser. Cuando se puede amar, ¡Cuánto se puede lograr!.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.

I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them. You can't transform them, you can only console them.

What can you give when there is no self, when you have no sensitivity, no receptivity, no warmth, nothing to contact others with?

You can't save people, you can only love them.

You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I will put down all the interpretations of what is said to you, the right interpretation, that is: the one that is not meant to injure, not meant to humiliate or accuse or doubt. And whenever something is said to you, you will look in my little dictionary to make sure, before you get desperate, that you have understood what is said to you.

Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

I gave him the one thing June cannot give him: honesty. I am so ready to admit what a supremely developed ego would not admit: that June is a terrifying and inspiring character who makes every other woman insipid, that I would live her life except for my compassion and my conscience, that she may destroy Henry the man, but Henry the writer is more enriched by ordeals than by peace.

Because I am a woman who understands, I am asked to understand everything, to accept everything.

Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one?

Compassion is the only key I ever found which fits everyone.

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

gave him the one thing June cannot give him: honesty. I am so ready to admit what a supremely developed ego would not admit: that June is a terrifying and inspiring character who makes every other woman insipid, that I would live her life except for my compassion and my conscience, that she may destroy Henry the man, but Henry the writer is more enriched by ordeals than by peace.

He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding.

I want the key, the key to the lies." "Passion and violence never opened a human being." "What opens human beings?" "Compassion.

In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.

The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.