Quotes About Compassion

Sacrificers," said Matchett, "are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.

People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes AND The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. AND We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Paul, in speaking of equality as the very soul and essence of Christianity, said, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.

because there are no winners in this sorry state of affairs. We are all losers; we are all diminished.

As she prayed, she thought of Mary, holding her infant son in her lap, nurturing and sustaining him through his childhood, and then watching all that love and care dying tortured on the cross. But in dying, the Blessed Virgin's son had granted eternal life to all.

My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living—no matter our unworthiness.

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

When you pray daily, you not only help yourself but you also help people you don't even know. The angels are looking for people who regularly invoke God's light to be their partners in planetary healing. When they find these partners, they direct light through them to help those in danger from disease, violent crime or natural disaster. Thus your daily prayers can truly make a world of difference.

Ten paciencia contigo mismo y con los demás. No les critiques y de ese modo no regresará hasta ti ese karma, que se manifestará en otros criticándote a ti, algo que te puede apesadumbrar.

A propósito de ello escribió Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: «Cada hombre tiene algún pesar secreto, el cual el mundo no conoce; y a menudo tildamos a un hombre de frío cuando tan sólo está triste».

No one can be the judge of another until he recognizes that he himself is as guilty for the crime as the one who committed it—and maybe more so.

When you come near to something that can't be made right, you have to approach it with love, and not vengeance. Vengeance is how we got into this in the first place.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.