Quotes About Compassion

Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do! Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them.

My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I don't know why you've been such a grouchy old bastard lately, but it's going to stop." [Linda] threw open the refrigerator and pulled out an insulated lunchbox. "Here. I made you a lunch. Take your pretty new gun and go shoot something.

Flatlanders," Huggins said. "That's the third group so far tonight. Nine times out of ten, when we're called for search and rescue, it's one of them. I don't go down to the city and get lost and make them come looking for me. I don't see why they can't return the favor." He looked at Clare. "You're from away, too, aren't you?

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?

Is it how we feel or how we think that is more important in determining whether we are morally good human beings?

If we live with a good heart, good speech, and good action life will be good.

How can we liberate love for each other if we do not liberate love.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering ... we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.

I'm not romantic. But I shall think that the heart has other uses, rather than just pumping blood.

You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.

Some of us believe that God is almighty, and can do everything; and that he is all wise, and may do everything; but that he is all love, and will do everything— there we draw back.

He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and to small, to low and to simple, to one and to other. And so meaneth He in that He saith: ALL MANNER OF THINGS shall be well. For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten.

For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.

Our falling is frightful our falling is shameful and our dying is sorrowful but still in all this, the sweet eye of pity and of love never departs from us, and the working of mercy ceases not.

Never does love's compassionate eye turn from us.

But in God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.