Quotes About Compassion

There's always somebody who wants to confiscate our humanity. And there are always stories that restore it

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow it for themselves or not. For those who love, there should be no shame in being exhausted—even in imagining another life.

We learn so much from our children—in patience, in humility, in gratitude for other blessings we had accepted before as a matter of course; so much in tolerance; so much in faith—believing and trusting where we cannot see; so much in compassion for our fellow man; and yes, even so much in wisdom about the eternal values in life.

Andrew Solomon

Some kinds of grace would not have entered the world if everyone's hips and legs worked the same way. Deformity has been brought into beauty's fold, a catalyst for justice rather than an affront to it.

I deplore the cynics who keep suffering patients from the essentially benign cures that might give them back their lives.

Just as the only real antidote to the temptations of money is lavish generosity, so the only real antidote to the temptations of power is choosing to spend our power in the opposite of the way the world encourages us to spend it: not on getting closer to the sources of additional power or on securing our own round-the-clock sense of comfort and control, but spend it on getting closer to the relatively powerless.

power is nothing—worse than nothing—without love.

The poor are poor," Jayakumar said to me, "because someone else is trying to play God in their lives.

Take a look at this." "Those poor little ants," says Jill.

I think everybody should like everybody.

Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul.

It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.

We cannot repay evil for evil. Evil can only be overcome with good.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free...

Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

How can adults expect forgiveness of children?It is an adult emotion. It is not a child's natural instinct to make compromises on behalf of a parent.

She's a good person to hug, because her body fills up all the empty spaces.

I wanted to lay down my cloak so that her feet might not be sullied by the dirty snow, but of course I could not - not only for the seeming excess of the gesture, which might have frightened away any sane woman, but also for a D shear impracticality of doing so at continuous intervals.

Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man.

Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures?