Quotes About Compassion

There's no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.

learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Wharlest Jackson used to ask: 'How can we change the white man's heart? How can we make him see that we're all the same inside?

Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word. It's how we respond that defines us.

It was so easy to forget the man was dying. Danny wondered if Shields forgot it himself sometimes. For the first second or two after he woke up in the morn ings, maybe. Danny had a paraplegic friend who'd ex perienced that. He said there was nothing worse than the crushing weight of remembering that he was para lyzed and couldn't get out of bed.

fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor

I'm sorry you had to go through this in the dark, she says. But you always were the strong one. My mother's son. right?

But now I understand something I did not before;: that the happiness of my childhood was bought with the pain of a black boy who had hurt no one.

who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.

When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold

I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do, not what they might get.

Like John Kennedy said, though, 'Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.

But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who hadn't felt the sudden loss of a child could ever even approximate the stabbing ache that came with every breath. I

You don't get to be the decider of what is yours and what can't be someone else's experience.

Beauty is more than a skin-deep issue. Our outer covering is our calling card. In order to feel great, to do great things, we need to understand that undeniable truth. Everything I've ever done has been to help others in a world that judges them every second of the day.

He always knew the right thing to say. He understood how to shift a conversation to a place that moved the content from the maudlin to true compassion.

The feeling I got was when you're so self-sufficient and self-important and you're walking down the street... be careful that your imaginary wings don't jostle the real angels that are the common people.

It seems there are no do-overs for bad mothers.

Jesus, some thought, would get a new lawyer.

Kindness can be a weakness, Grace. Please listen to me. Don't get me wrong. I don't want you to be harsh, uncaring. Not at all. I don't want you to be indifferent to the needs of others. I just don't want you to put anyone else above yourself.

Shelly never felt bad about anything. At least not when it came to other people's feelings. The girls noticed she'd shed a torrent of tears for dead pets, but never for another person.