Quotes About Compassion

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

I wish I could protect you from anyone who does not see you as I do.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot.

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

I feel your pain but I cannot hold your life in my hands.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

You'll be all right. You're strong. I know you'll be okay because I like you and you can't like someone who doesn't like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don't like because they hate themselves so much they won't let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I'll miss you. And I know you'll be okay.

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. Friend, I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs that reminds you to breath. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, when nobody else is home, hold my hand, and I promise I won't let go.

Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks.

Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried.

The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.

There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.

Whatever you're feeling, billions already have. Feel for them.

Some people care most about exhibiting how much they care.

Some people love only those they can condescend to, those they can tenderly despise.

My considerate friend insists on hearing about my troubles first, and after several minutes of excavation, I'm drowning in them and can't sufficiently attend to hers. But I'm doing her a favor, letting her escape her suffering into mine.

One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.

But I'm doing her a favor, letting her escape her suffering into mine.

I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me

But to pay attention is to love everything.

Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?" "Careful. You're talking about the man I love.