Quotes About Compassion

You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him—no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.

You were supposed to be different. You-" "Why?" Dalinar asked, standing calmly. "Why what?" Kaladin snapped. "Why am I different?" "Because you don't throw us away!" Kaladin shouted. "Because you... because..." Because you care about your men.

He liked her. And he brought her food.

During those days of sorrow, it´s the aged soldier -the one who was bowed by the battle- who can stand and protect the weak".

If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you.

Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. "How remarkable," he said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

Easy to dimiss, perhaps, but difficult to hate.

You're still human," Shallan said, reaching across, putting her hand on Navani's knee. "We can't all be emotionless chunks of rock like Jasnah." Navani smiled. "She sometimes had the empathy of a corpse, didn't she?

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.

That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.

Overcome your guilt, Kaladin. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself.' Protect, save, help—but know when to give up.

Cobb," I said, stepping closer. "Those aren't bloodthirsty monsters out there; they're just people. Normal people, with lives, and loves, and families." "And what did you think we've been fighting against all these years?" Cobb asked.

After living with the enemy," I admitted, "I learned it wasn't so simple. I didn't discover that their cause was just, mind you. Only that most of them weren't evil. They were merely people. Following, by accident, someone who was evil.

He could accept people with failings—even forgive them—but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.

You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't presume that you're better, just because you believe something different.

No dejas de amar a alguien solo porque te hace daño.

Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.

You have to learn when to care. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses.

But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren't alone—but in feeling it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there were others who understood. It wouldn't fix everything. But it was a start.

Cobb,' I said, stepping closer. 'Those aren't bloodthirsty monsters out there; they're just people. Normal people, with lives, and loves, and families.' 'And what did you *think* we've been fighting against all these years?' Cobb asked.

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

They were people. They were all just… people. With strange carapaces or odd life cycles. They lived, and they loved.