Quotes About Compassion

I just want to love everyone. I don't care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.

Strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another

If you are generous with your heart, you have no idea of the depth & breadth of love's reach.

He would go to Vera and deliver the horrible news and comfort the poor woman with his prayers and platitudes and tell her how God was with her, no matter what. She knew the words by heart; there had been times when he had used them on her, and she wondered if God had been with T.J. when they were cutting his arms to the bones.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

In a desire to help, I cleaned and tossed the leftovers for the first few days. Then I became curious, for it seemed as if the bread had been left purposely to linger on the tables. "Because it's holy," Mama Vered explained. "We offer it to the poor, and if they do not take it, we feed the birds and fish, but we never throw bread away.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

In business," Siilasmaa said, "we forget that we are human. Many strong leaders think they should not be friends with their colleagues. I disagree. Business is emotional. I like to be friends with my colleagues. You get through a crisis because you care so much.

It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke—in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to–to judge others by ourselves.

You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.

Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville, said Rhett, his mouth twisting. He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

Be a little man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you.

Don't spoil it," he said quietly. "Turn me loose, you fool! Turn me loose! It's Ashley!" He did not relax his grip. "After all, he's her husband, ain't he?" Will asked calmly and, looking down at him in a confusion of joy and impotent fury, Scarlett saw in the quiet depths of his eyes understanding and pity.