Quotes About Compassion

It's good to know what's wrong with the world,' Karla said, after a while. 'But it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

I mean, that faggot, think about it. If the whole world was like him, the human race would die out.' 'And if the whole world was like you, Concannon, we'd deserve to.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after. They're the canaries, kind of, in the coalmines of our hearts. If we stop feeling sorry for them, when they let us down, we're in deep trouble.

you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.

love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.

Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.

Compassion's a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can't fake it. I know. I've tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to go back to being a genuine, uncaring cunt, just to get well again. It's genuine, see, even being an uncaring cunt, and I'm drawn to genuine things, even if I don't like them.

But you don't get the blues, ever?' she asked. She was so earnest that I wanted to put my arm around her.

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

Freedom and happiness and justice and even love are all parts of the same whole: peace, within.

I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are.

Every kind of illness, disability, and hardship paraded there, stood at the doorways of restaurants and shops, or approached people on the street with professionally plaintive cries. Like the first sight of the slums from the windows of the bus, that glimpse of the suffering street brought a hot shame to my healthy face.

There's no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be.

And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

It's a lacerating guilt, that first confrontation with the wretched of the earth.

É a capacidade de perdoar que faz de nós aquilo que somos. Sem ela, a nossa espécie ter-se-ia aniquilado em desforras infinitas. Sem ela, não haveria História. Sem essa esperança, não haveria arte, porque toda a obra de arte é, de algum modo, um acto de perdoar. Sem esse sonho, não haveria amor, porque todo o acto de amor é de alguma forma uma promessa de perdão. Mantemo-nos vivos porque podemos amar, e amamos porque podemos perdoar.

How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me. 'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.

to mi?o?? czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawi?? ma?ymi

mi?o?? to droga jednokierunkowa. Mi?o??, tak jak szacunek, nie s?u?y do brania, tylko do dawania.

that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

of greed, which is the opposite of love.

hope, which is the opposite of hate;