Quotes About Compassion

She had just smiled and said what a merciful thing it was for him he had died, because if he had lived he would have been crippled and an invalid for life, and he couldn't have stood that, he would rather have died than had that happen.

How I would like to believe in tenderness.

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.

I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the same idea. And that will be poetic justice..

Let me be strong, strong with sleep and strong with intelligence and strong with bone and fiber; let me learn, through this desperation, to spread myself out: to know where and to whom to give:

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.' That shut me up.

What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?'... 'Tenderness.

What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man? Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, Tenderness.

Perhaps that's why I want to be everyone - so no one can blame me for being I.

Have you a capacity for love of someone beside yourself? I wonder, sometimes.

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And if I have learned nothing else, it is to listen and to love: everyone.

It is the strangers that are easiest to love at this hard time. Because they do not demand and watch, always watch. I

This is no time for the private point of view. (from 'Candles')

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Our own God Soul, our Holy Guardian Angel, whispers to us, "Be not afraid." Can we breathe in some courage and breathe out some compassion, and take up the task at hand? Can we live fully, despite our fears? Can we use the energy of fear to propel us forward instead of using it as an excuse to keep us in place? Can we move ever toward the Work of This God?

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

Teach us to care and not to care

Datta, dayadhvam, damyata (Give, sympathize, control)

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the disease If we obey the dying nurse Whose constant care is not to please But remind of our, and Adam's curse, And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. The whole earth is our hospital Endowed by the ruined millionaire

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

We must try to penetrate the other private worlds Of make-believe and fear. To rest in our own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?