Quotes About Compassion

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Fiecare e st?pân pe propria-i moarte, iar singurul lucru pe care-l putem face, odat? sosit ceasul,este s?-i ajut?m pe oameni s? moar? f?r? team? È™i dureri.

Je ne peux pas être vraiment en paix avec moi-même si je ne suis pas en paix avec mes frères.

J'apprenais qu'il peut être plus difficile de faire changer d'idée un enfant aimant qu'un homme armé de toute sa force.

Que tu travailles donc bien, Clair ! Alors l'enfant, rouge encore de l'effort, tout tendu, s'apaisait et me remerciait d'un sourire si tendre que j'entrevoyais presque avec honte l'héroïque effort auquel se livrait quotidiennement ce petit garçon pour obtenir un bon mot de ma part, et je devais prendre garde de ne pas même lui donner tout son dû, par peur de rendre les autres envieux et peut-être méchants envers lui.

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

We promised to be kind to each other, to be patient, to forgive each other's faults, to be steadfast and true, and to keep joy in our love.

Good hearts weighed nothing with the queen.

If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"?

Squashed behind The Cloud of Unknowing we discovered a pocket-size spiral notebook with a day-by-day account of the time Justin had stayed with her and her husband after Tommy's death. The writing was legible though it required effort (this was before she took her calligraphy course), but Justin was ecstatic and asked if he could have the little notebook. "This is my history," he said. Later, after he had deciphered every last word: "Boy, was I loved.

The 'unsharable' nature of pain, Scarry goes on to argue, triggers a chain reaction that isolates the bearer of pain and frequently leads to a lack of compassion, alienation and often even cruelty on the part of those who are not afflicted and lack the capacity to acknowledge, let alone comprehend its existence.

Kahlo's paintings offer a visual vocabulary with which trauma and pain can be transmitted or communicated with dignity and compassion. Through the language of her innovative art Kahlo gives voice to silenced, unresolved traumata. She thus obliterates the barrier between the individual experiencing pain and the viewer, and evokes empathy for our shared human fragility.

Judith Ferreto, Kahlo's nurse and long-time care-giver, recalled that the last time she saw the artist, just days before her death, the artist declared: 'Love is the only reason for living.

Kahlo's paintings offer a visual vocabulary with which trauma and pain can be transmitted or communicated with dignity and compassion.

Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

If you get mad at something that says 'Love Wins,' I don't know what to tell you.

Everyone kept saying, 'The terrorists didn't win. You won! We won! You survived!' That's just weird to me. Nobody wins in these situations. I don't see winners and losers in tragic events.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

What we were all always saying with 'The Wire' was that there's a whole group of people that America just sort of wants to throw away. They want to forget about them, and if they could, they'd get rid of them. They are Americans - they're worth saving; they're worth helping.