Quotes About Compassion

You can be related to someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person. You can love someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person. You can even be someone who's done a bad thing and not be a bad person

What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude. Cooper In the summer of 2023, Cooper Blessing is fifty-six years old, and when he gets down on one knee on the sidewalk in front of the Red Star Bar & Grill in Fells Point, he's momentarily concerned that he'll need help getting back up.

anyone. It takes an extraordinary person to handle this kind of loss as graciously as you are." At these words, Ursula sat up and stretched

she might understand that everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

How did she do it? "She comes clumping along with that sad, suffering face drawn with pain from her varicose veins and God knows what-all," one old-timer said. "You rush to help her to your seat. She thanks you kindly. The next thing you know you're dead.

If any have a stone to throwIt is not I, ever or now.

The only happiness left her was in making some one else happy.

Giving a damn and doing what is right are rewards in themselves.

MEILIN WAS SURROUNDED BY DEPRESSED RATS.

could pick up what he said.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

You have to know what people are capable of, and forgive them for whatever they're not. It'll

When I see pregnant women, I want to take them by their shoulders and shake. I mean shake. Are you ready?

You have to know what people are capable of, and forgive them for whatever they're not.

With all that ego shit out of the way, you clear the path toward love.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

Today, in our "shut up, get over it, and move on" mentality, our society misses so much, it's no wonder we are a generation that longs to tell our stories.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.