Quotes About Compassion

Love was choosing to take care of someone---not just family, but friends, too.

Pain is pain. You have a right to feel it.

But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.

Deviation," I repeated, thinking, There it is, so fast, the unsettled something. "It's a little more than that, Dad. We've actually been able to help someone. You know how good that feels. You do it in your work all the time, but James and I don't.

Sitting at my kitten's grave, I forgave myself for the last ten years. Wrong turns? No. I had acted in good faith, doing what I thought was right. But what was right, now, was seeing that my needs had changed. One of those new needs had just surfaced. I wanted a pet. I didn't care what kind; James could choose. Or not. He would argue against it, but when I thought of my baby and the

I haven't done anything as rewarding as this since I passed the bar. It was the best, Roger. I totally know what you mean about feeling good when you help people. I would represent one person like Lee any day over the jackasses I've been working with for the last seven years!

the giver of comfort, not the recipient.

they had talked about bad things happening to good people. Joyce hadn't accepted it then, any more than she was accepting it now.

opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Barbara Delinsky

he didn't look as much like a user as a man who had lost someone near and dear. She let it go. Wasn't that the lesson of the week? Anger accomplished nothing. Denial was a crutch.

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Yes, they manage to sound very reasonable to themselves as they talk of deterring others from crime; but the act of putting a man in jail remains essentially the act of trying to wish that man out of existence. From the moment of arrest one begins to feel against one's flesh the operation of this crude attempt at sorcery.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.

Her favorite Irish saying was 'may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in want,

I should stop feeling sorry for myself and obsessing with what I'd lost and think about what I could do for someone else.

Yes, everything begins in the human heart. But the human heart is not vacuum-packed. The pulsebeat from any breast, however armored, is felt, not just in private contract-"doomed commitments"- between private persons, but in Selma, in Haight-Ashbury, in Vietnam, in South Africa, in East New York. Reports from those locations are also reports from the heart.

She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.

Our power lies in the depth of our compassion and in our abilities to imagine each other in ourselves.

I mull that over. Amber treats everyone out here like normal people, not homeless street losers, and in return they give her their names.

But maybe what's important is not that I matter to them, but that they matter to me. And mostly that 'I' matter to me.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.