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Quotes About Compassion

perhaps she figured I was already a highly forgiving person, that I did my best to treat shortcomings like hobos I'd found dozing on my porch: take them in and maybe they'll work for you.
~ Marisha Pessl
Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.
~ Marisha Pessl
The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.
~ Marisha Pessl
The church's entrance was strewn with the dark immobile forms of men in bulky overcoats, asleep on cardboard boxes. They might have been dark whales, caught unaware by a tide that suddenly receded, leaving them stranded on the steps.
~ Marisha Pessl
We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read. The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities; bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.
~ Marisha Pessl
Rule number six: Everybody should have a car Rule number seven: All maids should eat at the table with the others Rule number eight: No old person should have to suffer Grandmother: In that case, I'll be your first disciple. Persepolis: Really? Grandmother: But tell me how you'll arrange for old people not to suffer? Persepolis: It will simply be forbidden.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.
~ Marjane Satrapi
En la vida encontrarás muchos imbéciles. Si te hieren, piensa que es su estupidez la que les empuja a hacerte daño. Así evitarás responder a su maldad. Porque no hay nada peor en el mundo que el rencor y la venganza... Mantén siempre tu dignidad, tu integridad y la fidelidad a ti misma (p.159)
~ Marjane Satrapi
I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Vais conhecer muitos idiotas na vida. Se te magoarem, lembra-te que é porque são estupidos. Assim, não vais reagir à sua crueldade, porque não há nada pior do que ser amargo e vingativo. mantem sempre a tua dignidade e sê verdadeira contigo mesma.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Dalam hidup kau akan bertemu banyak orang brengsek. Kalau mereka menyakitimu, katakan pada dirimu sendiri itu karena mereka bodoh. Itu akan membantu mencegahmu bereaksi pada kekejaman mereka. Karena tidak ada yang lebih buruk daripada kebencian dan balas dendam. Selalu jaga martabatmu dan jujurlah pada dirimu sendiri.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Dans ta vie tu rencontreras beaucoup de cons. S'ils te blessent, dis-toi que c'est la bêtise qui les pousse à te faire du mal. Ça t'évitera de répondre à leur méchanceté. Car il n'y a rien de pire au monde que l'amertume et la vengeance. .. Reste toujours digne et intègre à toi même.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Bad people are dangerous but forgiving them is too.
~ Marjane Satrapi
?nsanlar affetmeyi bilmeli ama asla unutmamal?d?r.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Sadece yaÅŸad???m?z talihsizlikler tahammül edilebilir olduÄŸu sürece kendimiz için üzülebiliriz. Tahammül s?n?r?n? a??nca, katlan?lmaz olana katlanabilmek için halimize güleriz.
~ Marjane Satrapi
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
~ Marjorie Holmes
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." And
~ Mark A. Thurston
the gospel is never about seeking our own comfort
~ Mark Ashton
The local church exists for the sake of others
~ Mark Ashton
I pride myself on not making people's experience shittier.
~ Mark Bowden
Man, God really does love medics.
~ Mark Bowden
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads. our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
~ Mark Bryan
Do all the good you can / By all the means you can / In all the ways you can / In all the places you can / At all the times you can / To all the people you can / As long as ever you can. —JOHN WESLEY
~ Mark Bryan
those folks might differ in some opinions, but humans always stood ready to help one another in distress, differences forgotten.
~ Mark Clifton