Quotes About Compassion

People should care for other people because they are familiar—because they're also humans—not because they're family.

get nostalgic for being a teenager for this reason. It never occurred to me then to be nice to other people. I look back at that time as a time of great freedom—but that was the great freedom, that I didn't give a fuck. I cannot give a fuck more than I already do. I feel it would be the end of me. Having children is nice. What a great victory to be not-nice. The nicest thing to give the world is a child. Do I ever want to be that nice?

And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many.

And what opens one heart opens many.

This world can't have too many of our prayers" -H.W. Marsworth

I know pride's a deadly sin, but I don't think the sin is deadly if you're proud for someone else" -Reenie Kelly

Sometimes one good thing can help your heart..." -Reenie Kelly

Flickorna återvände hem och berättade för Minette att det nog var allra bäst om hon försökte glömma honom. Och när hennes tårar började flöda denna gång gjorde de ingenting för att hindra henne.

Speak with heart, not anger.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.

I never knew You lived so close to the floor, but every time I am bowed down, crushed by this weight of grief, I feel Your hand on my head, Your breath on my cheek, Your tears on my neck. You never tell me to pull myself together, to stem the flow of many years. You simply stay by my side for as long as it takes, so close to the floor.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

I will not play at tug o' war I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs....

I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins, And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins.

I can't stand people who laugh at other people. They'd get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought.

I keep that photo to remind me to be forgiving and to look into people's souls with an open mind. It isn't the initial judgment that matters, Mike. It's the last one that counts.

The extra money we get from Martinez goes straight to the neediest members of our parish. Innocent people will be hurt. They use the money to buy food. This is about people who can't fend for themselves.

Those sharings just happened to be; but what we must do now is share everything. Everything! If one of us likes anything, there must be something to like in it—and the other one must find it.

That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love.

those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men.

Sometimes when you are lonely, just being near a friend is enough. You don't need their words or anything they might be able to give. You just need t know that you're not alone.

Sometimes a person needs a hug. And sometimes a person needs to give a hug.