Quotes About Compassion

And neither do you deserve all the blame. Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

I forgot that other people might care what went on inside my heart.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

Leading her to Truth, at the risk of your own heart and reputation, is love.

Love isn't love just because someone receives it or reciprocates," Coral said. "Loving someone who doesn't love you in return is perhaps the greatest kind of love. Sacrificial. Without demand or condition.

Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?" "Indeed, I have." "And? Was it worth it?" "Every single time.

Love is vast, rich, textured. If you limit yourself to only romantic love, you will never love well.

Everyone, everything, needed love.

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

I'd actually spent some time in my bedroom moving around using only one leg,trying to raise my sympathy level when I got really frustrated with him.

I didn't realize I was squeezing Tiffany's and Bird's hands until Bird said, "You know, bones break under pressure.

Being human?" She smirks. "Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

It makes you feel good about yourself, especially in the beginning. It makes you feel good about other people. You want to give the whole world a break, a time-out, a tender regard. There

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

The places in which we are seen and heard are holy places. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us the strength to go on.

Perhaps we are no longer a kind people. More and more, we seem to have become numb to the suffering of others and ashamed of our own suffering. Yet suffering is one of the universal conditions of being alive. We all suffer. We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see." The way to freedom often lies through the open heart.

Sometimes just being in someone's presence is strong medicine.