Quotes About Compassion

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".

It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.

I do believe giving advice is a -- maybe at times misguided -- form of showing care, as much as we might chafe at it. If you look at where it's coming from, a loving place, and take it with a modicum of grace, you can allow your friends to care for you. And as my mother says, God willing, you'll live long enough to give them unwanted advice right back

Rescuers don't have capes and wrist web-shooters and X-ray vision, but there is a superpower that comes from knowing you're making a difference in the world around you. And like the ability to walk on a leash, it makes anything feel possible.

He buried his face against her neck and held on to her healing compassion for just as long as she'd let him.

No man—or woman—left behind.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.

when he thought of the word mercy, it was the Yiddish word that came to his mind: rachmones, whose root was rechem, the Hebrew word for womb. Rachmones: a compassion as deep and as undeniable as what a mother felt for her child.

You accept that people are the way they are. There's nothing you can do about it, except learn ways to minimize the damage they can do to you. It's like rain. We don't feel a need to forgive the sky for raining on a day when we really wanted sunshine, do we? No. We might be upset and disappointed, but the need to forgive never enters our mind.

Love had to be given freely. No conditions.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

There was a man of the cloth—Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church—who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit—fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle—who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Like most of the English faculty, she had dealt with suicidal and homicidal students, students with eating disorders who fainted in class, students with depression, cancer, learning disabilities, dead or dying parents, autism, schizophrenia, gender identity issues, romantic heartbreak, and various syndromes involving the inability to sit quietly and read.

And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray over the human misery now in the world. The common lot of men binds us to each other and if we will, we may pluck virtue from tragedy.

I don't mind scrambling around in public after baby birds and trapped butterflies. I don't mind the strange looks and smirks that inevitably follow such activities. I can't walk by creatures in need. And I get to take home the greatest treasure of all: a warm glow, knowing that one more turtle will lay her eggs; one more dove, one more skipper will fly because I stopped to help.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

So you do believe in... true love? she whispered. I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere.

So you do believe in... true love? she whispered. I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere.

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.