Quotes About Compassion

GOMER: Get Out of My Emergency Room; "a human being who has lost—often through age—what goes into being a human being" (the Fat Man).

Talking about medicine, I told him with bitterness about my growing cynicism about what I could do, and he said, "No, we don't cure. I never bought that either. I went through the same cynicism—all that training, and then this helplessness. And yet, in spite of all our doubt, we can give something. Not cure, no. What sustains us is when we find a way to be compassionate, to love. And the most loving thing we do is to be with a patient, like you are being with me.

when Mrs. Risenshein arrested and I was surprised to hear myself cursing under my breath as I resuscitated her, "I wish she would die so I could just go to sleep," and I was shocked when I realized that I'd just wished a human being dead so I could go to sleep. Animal. Eat

Just remember, though—your freedom means my freedom too.

And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all

He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

La felicità della vita è fatta di frazioni infinitesimali: di piccole elemosine, presto dimenticate, di un bacio, di un sorriso, di uno sguardo gentile, di un complimento fatto col cuore.

no man can be in danger by loving others too much, that loveth God as he ought.

but if you love someone... you would keep giving them one more CHANCE and another and another and always one more.

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

The bullies who instilled that hatred were never made to account. I think they should. I think they should because he died that day, too.

Hoot, the odds are good that we're going to locate bones, and that'll be all that's left of those ladies who had futures, dreams, and people who loved them. Now, can you look at the faces in those pictures and still whine about a little bad weather? Hmm?

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still, she thought, a fur coat when the wind blew down off the Tenmile Range would feel mighty good. Maybe they made fur coats out of foxes that died of old age.

Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.

There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?

You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you?

She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.

I know, ain't evils in no life nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star.

because in point of fact we would have come flying if we had known remotely how much he was suffering.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself...

If national interest comes before our common humanity, Dalia said, then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything! One