Quotes About Compassion

Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

Ces scènes où l'un offre plus de son cÅ"ur qu'on ne lui demande, sont toujours pénibles

Take upon oneself as much humanity as possible. There is the correct formula.

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

For there is so much she needs to pass on to this child, that our lives are brief, even long ones like hers, and the one thing we should do is take care of each other. That's all. But honey, it's so hard. Why, child, is it so hard? A voice through the trees.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

Moltabano, for a moment, felt moved. That astonishing, wholly feminine capacity for deep understanding, for penetrating one's feelings, for being at once mother and lover, daughter and wife.

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And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.

I believe in pure love, I-Thou, love without boundaries or categories or conditions or making someone less than you are; not treating people like they are foreign or lower or things, I-It.

He made a choice, one his father didn't understand or agree with. But he still should have supported it. That's what love is about.

Derek wished he had more of the right words to offer. But both he and Sloane knew those words didn't exist. So he gave her the only ones he had. I'm so sorry, sweetheart.

No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to 'preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary', like many timeworn phrases, contains much that is true.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

When the young king had finished his sad story he burst once more into tears, and the Sultan was much moved.