Quotes About Compassion

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

My leg hurts," the soldier whined. "Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

Will was worth at least a few tears from a grizzled old wreck like himself, he thought, and made no move to wipe them away.

Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.

People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.

It was a joke, Thorn. That was all. Just a joke." "A joke, my friend? No, I don't think so. A joke is when everyone can have a good laugh together. But when you do something that's spiteful and hurtful and causes misery to someone else, that's not a joke. That's cruelty.

He had no sense of compassion for the Wargals who had died for him. They were nothing more than a tool for him to use.

Jesper," Hal said, "find a food stall and get a pie or a sausage for Ulf. Buy it. Don't steal it," he added. Jesper looked offended, but said nothing. In fact, he had been planning to "liberate" a pie for Ulf and save some money. He didn't consider taking food to be stealing. Everybody did that, he thought. He just did it better than most.

Cassandra sighed and shook her head at his total lack of concern. "You're obviously not a mother," she said. Horace raised his eyebrows. "Thank goodness for that.

good lady" was anything but fair. She was middle-aged, overweight and plain in the extreme. But that was no reason why she should be subjected to this sort of terror, Halt thought grimly. She held back, whimpering with fear at the sight of the black figure before her.

Vrienden zouden elkaar niet hoeven te bedanken,' zei hij. Maar Cassandra was het daar niet mee eens. Ze stond op en liep naar hem toe. 'Dat hoeven we ook niet,' zei ze. 'Maar dat willen we wel.' Ze legde haar handen op zijn schouders, boog zich voorover, maar keek toen eerst achterom naar Alyss. 'Mag ik?' 'Voor deze keer dan!' grijnsde Alyss en de prinses gaf Will een dikke pakkerd op beide wangen.

Erak kreunde. 'Nu weet ik pas hoe mensen zich voelden als ze mij aan zagen komen.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

There is no need to stand for what is right. People are entitled to their own opinion and they are right in their own way. By choosing to be kind, you avoid the conflict of explaining why you are right. You are only feeding your ego for justifying the reasons why you are right. Choosing to be kind means accepting the reasons why people do what they do. By living your life in this manner, you drive away hostility and

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment

We do not need to be mighty when we are faced with weakness." - Ezekyle Abaddon

If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.

Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.

I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.10 This

I think Job and I understand each other better now. It was not the boils, but the free advice!

It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

It is our duty to help ane anither in this howling wilderness.