Quotes About Compassion

Three Denises wobbled in front of her, all of them watching her with fond concern. "You're a sweetie. I appreciate you cheering me on from the sidelines. But I think I need to go to the bathroom now and throw up.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

Liking someone doesn't make you weak.

you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

Audrey had never understood why mean words sounded louder than kind ones.

If a woman can't help another woman in trouble, where would we be?

It was that or cancel it. And I can't believe I just told you that." Audrey shrugged. "Friends and family all have opinions and feel they have to fix things, and sometimes all you want is someone to listen.

I don't want to be the dark cloud in anyone's day. It's better to be the sunshine than the rain.

I don't suppose any of us really knows what we'd do until we're actually in that position ourselves. It's pretty easy to judge from the outside, but not so easy when it's your life.

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Doing something for yourself doesn't make you selfish. My students tell me it's called self-care.

A lo mejor no consistía en entender a alguien; a lo mejor la amistad consistía en querer a una persona incluso aunque no siempre la entendieras.

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

Being insulted by your child and loving them anyway is the human condition.

But don't we need to cross over? Is this not a moral imperative for art, but also for social discourse? Don't we need to imagine people different from ourselves, people whose experiences we can only imagine?

Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.

I am grateful to the men and women who create books, and I forgive the men and women who make books necessary." — VOICE AT QUAKER MEETING, Peterborough New Hampshire

My cat was up all night throwing up. So obviously I was up all night holding her hair.

Anyone who pledges a new start out of love deserves a second chance.

clochards—homeless people who have been living on the same streets for so long that no one can remember a time when they weren't there.