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Quotes About Compassion

Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?
~ Terry Brooks
sometimes there was nothing you could do to save people; sometimes you just had to let go of them.
~ Terry Brooks
It takes everything I've got to offer, but not more than I wish to give." He pointed.
~ Terry Brooks
friends do for each other what they see needs to be done
~ Terry Brooks
Don't be so quick to steal away what that sacrifice meant by insisting it was your fault.
~ Terry Brooks
You make the choice to use a weapon or not, and your choices will always matter more than the weapon itself, for weapons have a tendency to steal away compassion, empathy, and any consideration of what you
~ Terry Brooks
The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.
~ Terry Eagleton
There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.
~ Terry Eagleton
We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP
~ Terry Eagleton
Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.
~ Terry Eagleton
Ölümün kaç?n?lmaz olduÄŸunu bilmek ama yine de dansa devam etmek, gene de baÅŸkald?rmak, gene de dilenciye ekmek vermek. İşte bu olabilecek en saf özgürlüktür. -Azizler ve Alimler
~ Terry Eagleton
But it is precisely the fact that they are human that makes what terrorists do so appalling. If they really were inhuman, we might not be in the least surprised by their behaviour.
~ Terry Eagleton
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
~ Terry Goodkind
We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.
~ Terry Goodkind
As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.
~ Terry Goodkind
It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
~ Terry Goodkind
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
~ Terry Goodkind
Kahlan,' he said, trying to make his voice sound reassuring, 'being a friend means you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, and I'll still be your friend.
~ Terry Goodkind
When the son, a lanky young man, saw Kahlan, he fell instantly and hopelessly in love. Richard understood the feeling; nonetheless, he didn't appreciate it.
~ Terry Goodkind
We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.
~ Terry Goodkind
We all make mistakes. The people who love us forgive the mistakes. The people who won't forgive don't really matter
~ Terry Goodkind
We teach our children to help those in need because one day we might be the ones in need, and we can only hope to earn such help if we are worthy, if we are the kind who would give it and not just receive it. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.
~ Terry Goodkind
That's what friends are for—to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
~ Terry Goodkind
Nicci hugged her back. "You do know, don't you, that I also love you?
~ Terry Goodkind