Quotes About Compassion

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.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

To do each day, humbly, and so that God alone may see it, all the good that one can do; always to seek out all the misery and grief within reach in order to relieve them; to cultivate in oneself a lively sympathy for everyone; and to do all this for God alone — that is the goal of all human existence.

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

Be good to your girls!

I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.

We know so little about what goes on in another person's head.

Love saves, that's what I wanted him to understand. Even if I didn't completely believe it myself.

Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.

We are bound to those we love by their imperfections their perfections help us to explain them to others.

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

He took a deep breath. It was no matter. Of course his feelings were stronger, as they should be. He was to be the leader of their household, after all; it would not do for him to feel less than she did. And she was a lady. She would have kept her feelings in check until she was sure of his. Poor dear, she likely wondered why he had not spoken up. He had walked with her almost daily but spoken nothing of love or marriage. How could he have let her suffer so?

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Mark I. Rosen writes, "We admire traits in others that we admire in ourselves; we denigrate others when their behavior doesn't conform to our values. We find it almost impossible to climb inside someone else's head and see the world through different eyes.

Communication is a combination of right words and sensitive acts.

You can be positive no matter who tries to bring you down. You can stop being the victim of others and start loving in spite of them.