Quotes About Compassion

You're very beautiful, dear", she said, "what nationality are you, Indian?" "No", I smiled, "I'm Aboriginal." She looked at me in shock. "You can't be," she said. "I am." "Oh, you poor thing," she said, putting her arm around me, "what on earth are you going to do?

You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?' 'No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.' She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said. 'I am.' 'Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do?

We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated.

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

Love should not be by the body. Love should be by the heart.

Gotovo nikada nismo imali novca i živeli smo tajno obuzeti brigom zbog toga....Sažaljenje bližnjega ubija. Snaga, govorila je Gala, ne leži u tome da se izazove sažaljenje, ve? posti?enost. Mogli smo da umremo od gladi, niko to nikada ne bi znao.

I don't deserve this. I have forgiven myself. What I did to you was not so bad. It happens.

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously; then, the rules of battle become more stringent. The politics that lead to war can always be argued, but there is an undeniable sympathy that must be extended when a woman leaves a man.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author

Aprendemos a amar no cuando encontramos a la persona perfecta, sino cuando llegamos a ver de manera perfecta a una persona imperfecta.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly

Our task for the future is exploring what it means for each individual to be a member of earth's household, a commonwealth of kindred beings. Whether we will use our freedom to encapsulate ourselves in narrow, tribal, paranoid personalities and create more bloody Utopias or to form compassionate communities of the abandoned is still to be decided. So long as human beings possess a measure of freedom, all hopes for the future must be subjunctive we may, we might, we could.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone....

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.