Quotes About Compassion

In our finest hours...the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists; to look out rather than to turn inward; to accept rather than to reject. In so doing, America has grown ever stronger, confident that the choice of light over dark is the means by which we pursue progress.

Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.

W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

We judge others based on our love level. When we are full of love we have no room left for judgment.

Afri?ka Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se tako?er pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne ?ovje?nosti.

I was reminded that retribution does not break cycles of violence and injustice, but grace might.

Do you want to be known for your demands for your rights, even at the potential cost of other people's lives? Or do you want to be known as the type of Christian who is happy to be inconvenienced to serve the weak around us?

The more I love people, the more I fall in love with God. The more I fall in love with God, the more I love people.

As awareness grows, appreciation grows too. As appreciation grows, so does empathy.

Benjamin, min son. Du har skrivit igen. Jag har bett dig att inte skriva och jag ber dig ännu en gång. Du måste förstå. Jag älskar dig. Jag hoppas du mår bra. Med jag låtsas att du inte finns.

En sista sak bara, vännen, så att jag inte missat någonting... /.../ Du vet väl om att du är homosexuell, eller hur?

Kan någon tala om vad man säger när man stöter ihop med en av sina vänner efter semestern och han har fallit ihop till ett nästan ingenting, som ett hus som demolerats i en storm?

Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar.

Andre Royo: I think that's the real beauty that you find in every human being that scares you. When a human being stops trying, when we don't give a fuck, when we say, "Ah, fuck it. I don't care," once that aspect comes into the human psyche, humanity is lost. You got to want to try. Whether you know you're pushing that rock up a hill or you're going to bang your head against a brick wall, the idea to not try cannot seep into our society. We got to try. (275)

As a boy, Jimmy sent a nickel every week to Baptist missionaries building hospitals and schools in China.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

The problem in our relationship with animals is that our treatment of them hasn't evolved to keep up with our knowledge.

No one is right 100 percent of the time or always says or does exactly the right thing.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what breaks your heart?

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.

There are always two sides to every story, and it is generally wise, and safe, and charitable, to take the best; and yet there is probably no one way in which persons are so liable to be wrong, as in presuming the worst is true, and in forming and expressing their judgement of others, and of their actions, without waiting till all the truth is known.