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Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
~ William Faulkner
Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
~ Rick Warren
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me." -Maddy
~ Scott Speer
I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
~ Sean Patrick Flanery
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62
~ Sharon Salzberg
Every time I think that it's not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.
~ Simon Weston
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.
~ Steven Petrow
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
~ Suzanne Collins
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.
~ Temple Grandin
At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.
~ Tenzin Palmo
That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.
~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.
~ Tony Robbins
Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.
~ Tonya Hurley
Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.
~ Tyler Farr
I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
~ Veronica Roth
They may not love you at the time, but they will later.
~ Vince Lombardi