Quotes About Compassion

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

Being nice was the ideal, the one place where people didn't get loud, or so quiet they could scare you. If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean

Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

It's you who i have thought of when i am at my weakest & you who have pulled me through

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

There were lots of ways to love someone, I guessed, both by remembering and forgetting.

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Just remember: the heart! Start there, and you can't go wrong.

I was beginning to understand, though, that there were no such things as absolutes, not in life or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about.

Aceptar todo lo bueno y lo malo de alguien. Es algo muy bueno a lo cual aspirar. La parte difícil es en verdad hacerlo.

I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me. She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

everyone is good at heart.

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point - Sydney Stanford