Quotes About Compassion

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.

We can only be human together.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Why would forgiveness be of any value if it were reserved only for forgivable offenses?

We diminish ourselves too," she said at last, "when feeling sorry for someone who has done a dreadful wrong leads us to excuse him and simply hope he will mend his ways. Feeling sorry for someone but acknowledging that justice ought nevertheless to be done is more appropriate to moral beings.

And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out to him as no one had reached out for more years than he could recall, and she had looked at him with steady acceptance of what she must do to earn her living. He cursed softly and turned from the

He had suffered as much as she. She closed her eyes and laid her forehead in one shaking hand. What a revolutionary thought! She had accustomed herself for so long to the idea that he was a heartless wretch. Had he just been her own very dear Robert all the time?

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It had been a short conversation. It had also been the kindest they had shared in longer than ten years.

We can all be hurt.

She closed her eyes and put her hands over her face. Dear God, he had suffered too.

He had to force himself not to pull her into his arms to comfort her. Damn it, he had hurt her when he had meant only to tease. And he was uncomfortable with feelings of compassion.

Tal vez las familias no siempre rechazan. Tal vez al menos a veces abren los brazos para acoger. Tal vez a veces se puede confiar en el amor.

I do not know what happened, Beth, she cried, but I do know it must have been something dreadful. You are both such dear people, and I know something quite extraordinary must have driven you apart.

Tenemos la costumbre, me parece, de creer que el amor es una de las emociones humanas más débiles. Pero no es débil en absoluto. Tal vez es la fuerza que discurre por todo y lo une todo. Simplemente amor.

Rapists do not deserve to live." And

And I am to smile benevolently at all these happy couples?