Quotes About Compassion

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Nuestros libros son botellas al mar, mensajes lanzados en la inmensidad de la ignorancia y la miseria; pero ocurre que ciertas botellas terminan por llegar a destino, y es entonces que esos mensajes deben mostrar sentido y su razón de ser, deben llevar lucidez y esperanza a quienes los están leyendo o los leerán un día.

La verdad que no me importa si no entiendo a las mujeres. Lo único que vale la pena es que lo quieran a uno. Si están nerviosas, si se hacen problemas por cualquier macana, bueno nena, ya está, deme un beso y se acabó. (La señorita Cora)

Como hacer vendas para un soldado que todavía no ha sido herido y sentir eso de grato, que se lo está aliviando desde antes, previsoramente.

Y yo pensaba en la mucama del hotel que me daba consejos sobre un helecho: «No lo riegue, ponga un plato con agua debajo de la maceta, entonces cuando él quiere beber, bebe, y cuando no quiere no bebe...». Y pensábamos en esa cosa increíble que habíamos leído, que un pez solo en su pecera se entristece y entonces basta ponerle un espejo y el pez vuelve a estar contento...

Y le sonriera con la sonrisa de otros tiempos pero nada mas que eso, la sonrisa vacia, la costumbre de una sonrisa donde talves habitaba la lastima

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

To give good hugs you have to have some soft places. —Jeremy Richards

Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.

I had not given a thought to what a difference it can make when you treat another person with simple respect and dignity, the same respect and dignity you want for yourself. That is so simple, yet so few seem able to do it.

Moyo kabla ya silaha

Having our hearts exposed is an extremely vulnerable position to be in. It can make us feel persecuted and alone. Why did this happen to me? we ask. It happened partly because we were fortunate enough to have loved someone. Without love there would be no grief.

This is the meaning of poverty: when you have nothing better to do than to hate somebody who, just exactly like yourself, has nothing better to do than to pick on you instead of trying to figure out how come there's nothing better to do.

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND REACTION I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY NOBODY COLD I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Come on! What's so precious about a monster?

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

They are walking hand in hand and she looks so very happy that you try to find the space in your heart not to begrudge her.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. You don't know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around.

In your heart you thought she would hate you—that they would all hate you. I don't hate you. Tú eres mi hombre, she says proudly.

You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.