Quotes About Compassion

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

Total forgiveness was not going to be easy. This much I knew. It was going to take some effort, but it was better than the alternative, which would leave me hating my father and resenting him. I couldn't live like that.

life is short and we can't waste precious time feeling hateful or carrying grudges.

What provided that light for me—when I sank very low and came close to giving up—was love.

will not be defined by my past, nor will I harbor bitterness toward those who wronged me. Instead I will pity them, for they do not know compassion or forgiveness.

that life is short and we can't waste precious time feeling hateful or carrying grudges.

you're going to tell me to stop crying and get over it.

I am just a man—a man who was saved by love.

It's okay to be sad. Just know that…

snoop through his phone contacts and messages when he's not here to explain himself. Winston jumps up as well and waits patiently beside me with his chin on his front paws, the big plastic cone like a clown collar around his neck.

The light of compassion shined so steadily from within them that others could clearly see all the choices they were making, so they no longer existed in the dark. Without a word, without a sword, the energy that was void of light was unable to function on Earth. This brilliant light, which emanated from individuals and became a collective force, stopped the planet's shifting. The seas became calm. The children stepped out to play. And a new song was heard everywhere.

Do not abandon ship: Some countries of the world are like people fighting on a large boat. In the middle of their battle over who should catch the biggest fish, they look up and realize that the fine boat is sinking, and everyone is going down. Their next fight will be for basic survival, and they will need to rely on one another, floating far from shore in the vast sea.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

It doesn't matter who you love - a guy, a girl - love is love. And it's the most important thing in the world. If you have love in your life, you have everything.

Suicide is not the answer.'' They don't know the question.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

I express my faith by being extremely generous to others, particularly those in need -- not censorious of myself, which I see as a kind of useless, tight-fisted vanity.

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

I just want to make people smile.

I don't know why they are here but it doesn't mean that they don't belong.

I am just a girl, a girl men touch without asking, a girl men disrobe without even seeing her tears.

Get Well Soon. People sent me get well soon cards while I was in a mental hospital. There were fluffy little bunnies, floaty rainbows, and even a religious card. I could understand that Hallmark probably doesn't make "Get Sane Soon" cards, but still. Was I not well before? Am I well now? Who decides?

One was led by a gentle, white-whiskered philanthropist named James Hack Tuke, who set off for Donegal at the beginning of March.