Quotes About Compassion

Our Lord has many weak children in His family, many dull pupils in His school, many raw soldiers in His army, many lame sheep in His flock. Yet He bears with them all, and casts none away.

Si resuena el Avapiés en mí, como fondo sobre todas las resonancias de mi vida, es por dos razones: Allí aprendí todo lo que sé, lo bueno y lo malo. A rezar a Dios y a maldecirle. A odiar y a querer. A ver la vida cruda y desnuda, tal como es. Y a sentir el ansia infinita de subir y ayudar a subir a todos el escalón de más arriba. Esta es una razón. La otra razón es que allí vivió mi madre. Pero esta razón es mía.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless what it was like to be homeless.

It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.

Empathy sometimes achieves what scholarship cannot

Poetry, music and literature, he believed, ought not to be interrupted by the banality of war.

Sabes lo que ocurre cuando haces daño a la gente? Dijo Ammu. Cuando dañas a la gente, comienzan a quererte menos. Eso es lo que hacen las palabras descuidadas. Hacen que la gente te quiera un poco menos.

Do you realize what you have just done? D'you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

His rejection of her in life (gentle and compassionate though it was) was neutralized by death. In her memory of him, he embraced her. Just her. In the way a man embraces a woman.

per la libertà che aveva rinunciato ai suoi oggi per i domani degli altri. Un uomo con il volto rigato di lacrime

D'you know what happens when you hurt people?" Ammu said. "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

You can see them from your car window when you drive home every night. Try not to look away. Try to meet their eyes.

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less

I mean, it's all a matter of your heart . . . NÂZIM HIKMET

How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.

Those eyes that stared at us for one and a half hours – they were forgiving eyes, understanding eyes. We Kashmiris do not need to speak to each other any more in order to understand each other. We do terrible things to each other, we wound and betray and kill each other, but we understand each other.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

A nurse has five seconds to make a patient like you and trust you. It's in the whole way you present yourself. I do not come in saying, 'I'm so sorry.' Instead, it's: 'I'm the hospice nurse, and here's what I have to offer you to make your life better. And I know we don't have a lot of time to waste.

This is the consequence of a society that faces the final phase of the human life cycle by trying not to think about it. We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals—from freeing up hospital beds to taking burdens off families' hands to coping with poverty among the elderly—but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we're weak and frail and can't fend for ourselves anymore.

assisted living isn't really built for the sake of older people so much as for the sake of their children.

You know, there's this phase of people's lives in which they can't really cope on their own, and we ought to find a way to make it manageable.