Quotes About Compassion

I don't have kids; I've never lost a pet. My parents, grandparents, siblings, and in-laws are all alive and kicking. What do I know about losing someone you love?

I would think that to love a person in spite of their faults, rather than because you cannot see those faults, would be the deeper of the two attachments.

Es un hecho cruelmente triste que algunas personas desaparezcan de tu vida cuando estás pasando por un infierno y cuando más las necesitas.

Chris wasn't blameless, either. Taking a grieving, troubled boy into his home had to have been hard—especially when he'd been building his own family with Christopher Jr. and Ireland on the way. But he'd accepted the role of stepfather when he married Elizabeth. He shared responsibility for pursuing justice for a wounded and exploited child. Hell, a stranger would have an obligation to report the crime.

Sometimes people give what they can, and it's important to acknowledge that, even if it's not what you need.

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them. ( Initiation )

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

I must learn more about these people?try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say fine

Not being perfect hurts.

I don't see what women see in other women, I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man? Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, Tenderness.

I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

I don't see what women see in other women, I told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man? Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, Tenderness. That shut me up.

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I don't see what women see in other women, I told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man? Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, Tenderness. That shut me up.

It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance.

Doctor Nolan had said, quite bluntly, that a lot of people would treat me gingerly, or even avoid me, like a leper with a warning bell. My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

I don't see what women see in other women," I told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness." That shut me up. "I

How I would like to believe in tenderness The face of the effigy, gentled by candles, Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you old friends.

I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "Fine.