Quotes About Compassion

He wanted to make her feel good. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that. He

Father was standing in the corridor. He held up his right hand and spread his fingers out in a fan. I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes Father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugging people, so we do this instead, and it means that he loves me.

And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard.

And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard,' and she held out her hand. And I said, 'I don't like people holding my hand.' And she took her hand back and she said, 'No. OK. That's OK.

It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. "Well?

Jean had always found her sister hard work. Even before she was born-again. To be honest, it was slightly better after she was born-again. Because then there was a reason for Eileen being hard work. You knew you'd never get on because she was going to heaven and you weren't, so you could give up trying. But, God, the woman could make you feel greedy and self-centered just by the way she wore a shapeless faun cardigan.

We're [Ed and Christopher] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

We're [Christopher and Ed] not that different, me and you. [said Ed]

I pulled the fork out of the dog and lifted him into my arms and hugged him. He was leaking blood from the fork-holes. I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?

If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.

How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.

His name was Peter Lake, and he said to himself out loud, "You're in bad shape when a horse takes pity on you, you stupid bastard

A benevolent act is like a locust: it sleeps until it is called.

Harry understood that those left behind—the failures and the deformed, the suffering and the dead—are not just equal in soul, but that they are we and we are they. Struggle as we may for distinction, soon enough we fail, and, without exception, follow.

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

Mark Kurlansky

softness overcomes hardness.

nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.

ahimsa, or nonviolence

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

What it really comes down to is the clearness of heart to stop defining who I am by those who have hurt me and to take up the risk to love myself, to validate my own existence, pain and all, from the center out.

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things…. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.

To listen is to lean in softly with the willingness to be changed by what we hear.