Quotes About Compassion

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...

you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care...

Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...

the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...

you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...

you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...

some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls...

you don't need a calling to minister love...

you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...

it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...

the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

I believe I am no man's enemy unless he chooses to make me one. For me it's humanity that counts, not the words written in the book of any religion

family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.

No one should ever have to see their mom crumpled up in a corner on the floor the way I did so many times.

Too many kids these days come up missing," he said, "and we always ask the question, 'How come I didn't see what happened to that kid?' Why? Because we chose not to. Get up early in the morning. Go out walking with your dog. Do something while these kids are going to school. Because I thought that this problem that has happened to me, and this joyous day that I got my daughter back, would never happen to my family. But it came knocking on that door.

We certainly hope that an entire family is not judged over the actions of one person.