Quotes About Compassion

Ezri, if you need to hit me, then by the gods hit me. If that's what you need, I won't fight you for a second. Not ever. Just...tell me what you want.

I weep again for your hardship," said Locke. "Forced by cruel circumstance to throw garden parties.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone . . . not even to ourselves.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Oh...ow! Gods, Please. Ow! You said you...wouldn't kill me!" "And I meant it. I'm not going to kill you, you cabbage-brained twit. I'm just going to kick you until it stops feeling good!" "Ow! Agggh! Please! Aaaaow!" "I have to say, it's still pretty fascinating." "Aiiiah! Ow!" " Still enjoying myself." "Oooof! Agh!

Locke, Locke, we can't all be mad dogs with a blade in our hands, and it's nothing to sob about, so let's not see that lip of yours quivering like an old whore's tits, right?

The world is cruel enough without our compounding it; I approve.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is to be present in the present. Gratefully. —Maya Angelou

74. In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme 'what to do with Hitler after the war' by submitting a single sentence. "Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

compassion and humanity are the first casualties of any war.

benevolence once they have nudged against you and invited your aff ection with their smooth, glistening smiles. Rereading Island of the Blue Dolphins, I could

It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.

All we must do, child, is live well, help where we can, and take the good times with as much grace as the bad.

Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe, I would have to look harder for antidotes, for medicines, for sources of hope.

It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

Write thank-you notes. Tip well. Sing. Drink responsibly. Remember that good manners cost nothing, and open doors. Reach out to someone who is lonely. Make them laugh. Help people smile.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.

the ability to observe ourselves objectively and compassionately is the single most important skill to develop in walking the spiritual path." Starting