Quotes About Compassion

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them

Maybe we're supposed to save each other.

I'm sorry." I know it's the universal default, but the problem is, one's first knee-jerk response when someone says "I'm sorry" is to say "It's okay." We are programmed from kindergarten, from the first time the inevitable snot-nosed kid knocks over our blocks, to forgive. And it's not okay, it's as far from okay as it can really get, but there you are, tricked by a sociolinguistic tic into affirming that it is.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

Scott, please take your knee off my neck.

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

Our most important work is love.

When white Christians refuse to hear cries for justice from black and brown sisters and brothers, it is one more symptom of the racism that has long divided our souls, our congregations, and our nation.

it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the most gracious souls the world has ever known. The story is told of an Abba

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Robert Frost quote: "Tell other people's stories as if they happened to you, and tell your own as if they happened to other people.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

The way I would talk to a platoon of SEALs would be very different than the way I would talk to a 60 year old COPD patient.

He isn't a codebase; he is a human being, and bugs are harder to spot and fix in humans. You can't just deploy a fix immediately. It takes time to identify the problem and foster and grow a change.

En áls er dan ergens in moest worden berust, dan toch in de wetenschap dat zij eendrachtig waren in hun rouw; dat zij eindelijk van elkaar wisten dat zij niet treurden om de afloop en het scheiden, maar al hadden getreurd vanaf het eerste begin. Die synchroniciteit was troostend.

Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping.

what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.

If we lived in Truth; if we spoke the Truth - then we could walk with God once again, and respect ourselves, and others, and the world. Then we might treat ourselves like people we cared for. We might strive to set the world straight. We might orient it toward Heaven, where we would want people we cared for to dwell, instead of Hell, where our resentment and hatred would eternally sentence everyone.