Quotes About Compassion

If Maria is our hugger, Gloria is our rocker. She rocks for hours in the corner under one of the dumb smiling flowers.

Then let us pray," Pastor Patton said firmly. Stella noticed a few townspeople slowing down as they passed by; none of the faces looked pleasant. She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord," said the pastor, we bow down before you as we stand up for dignity. Be with us and protect us both morning, noon and night. Amen.

I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.

Why are some people mean and some people nice?" "I don't rightly know...But my job is to teach all of you to be the best people you can be...

Those aides deserve medals. We're not an easy bunch.

I look at my friends [in H5] thru different eyes...Not one of them even knows how to be mean.

So you want to be mean and fake and thoughtless?" I looked up at her angry face, then looked away. "No. Normal." "Normal sucks!" she roared. "People love you because you're Melody, not because of what you can or cannot do. Give us a little credit." "I want

As the children from Riverside School and the children from Mountain View School filed out of the store, each grabbing one silver-wrapped chocolate from Mrs. Cooper's basket, it struck Stella that everyone got the same thing, no matter which school they went to.

it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I when young.

and some young men loved them the way one would want, oneself, to be loved.

the sight pierces me with tenderness, he was suffering, then, as I would soon.

he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

You seem sad, Coriel." I nodded. "The world makes me sad these days. Things I would not have noticed a year ago seem dreadful to me now. Is that a function of growing older? And will everything seem more dreadful every year, from now until I die?

I think we broaden our minds and our experiences if we can learn to embrace things that at one point filled us with revulsion.

Elisandra's lips moved in a silent prayer of gratitude. Color actually washed across her face. That was bad; that was actually terrible; but there had been a hero, nonetheless, some mercy shown, and that made the story more bearable.