Quotes About Compassion

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender hearted.

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,Mark said. Don't tell the story like that, Nedley laughed. What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . . Natalie

Ian had Always found his little sister a bit annoying, but lately he'd actually felt sorry for her, watching her try so hard to please their mother, who'd become completely impossible to please. What changed? Ian wondered. What happened? Is it really just that we're… losing?

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . .

I just wanted everyone to have one," Finn said, grinning crookedly. "It made me feel better to draw them. And, remember, we're from this world, and we're nice. And so's Other-Natalie. So couldn't this be a heart kind of place if people tried a little harder?" Other

The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender.

Say that our lives are measured not by gain but by giving.

Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.

It seems to me that being a great friend is more important than being a great hero or a great warrior. Being a good friend is the most important thing there is. Just think, if everyone in the world were great friends, then we wouldn't be such terrible enemies.

reach out your hand, and it will touch the hand of someone reaching out to you, and—together—you will find the strength and hope you need to go on.

Pity, mercy, compassion. Thats's all I'm afraid, said Alfred. That is everything, said the phantasm.

Our lives are measured not by gain but by giving.

Say that our lives are measured not by gain but by giving." The half-elf started to reply, but the Forestmaster interrupted.

Pity, mercy, compassion." "That's all, I'm afraid," said Alfred. "That is everything," said the phantasm.

Theros Ironfeld said once that—in all the years he had lived—he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.

It is too simple to pet a stray dog then watch it run under a car and say it wasn't mine It is too simple to admire a rose then pick it and forget to put water in the vase It is too simple to use a person for loving without love then leave him standing alone and say I don't know him anymore It is too simple to know one's flaws then live them at great cost to others and say that's just the way I am It is too simple the way we sometimes live our lives for after all life simply is a serious matter

She lavishes pain with generosity.

People are saying: 'Look, there are times when her expression is so severe that it quite alters her. Her beauty changes to... It's hard to interpret. Is it an expression of ferocity or something quite different–compassion?

C'était là le point faible de cette vie, le seul définitif: on ne spécule pas sur son enfant.On croit couver un petit aigle et il vous sort de dessous le bureau un serin. Et qu'y faire? Quel recours a-t-on contre ce sort d'injuste?

Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.

He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She