Quotes About Compassion

If you want to make a difference in someone's life, you don't need to be gorgeous, rich, famous, brilliant or perfect. you just have to care.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.

Do what you can to avoid or neutralize conversations which put people down. Think with your heart.

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't

You are not alone. You are not being singled out by the fates to suffer.

Step into my shoes follow my journey my mountains my valleys my surprise potholes and if you can keep going the way I keep going perhaps you'll understand my choices & strength.

We all rejoice in hearing those 3 words: I love you. Beneath these 3 words are another 3: I get you. It's when we feel understood that we feel most loved.

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

If someone has harmed you, don't wish them ill -- wish for them to gain clarity! Hope that they will soon be able to fully see the pain they have caused you, as well as new ways of being and doing.

We can do nothing of any measure for Him, save loving Him. Bella teaches us that is enough. In fact, it is all that matters.

But if you find yourself smarting from an unfortunate comment in a usually loving friendship, I have three words for you: Get over it. Mention it if you need to, work it out, reaffirm your friendship, then get over it and go on. You know, the Lord didn't mess up. He's placed you and me smack dab in the middle of chaotic relationships with imperfect people because the bumpy road of loving and being loved leaves us richer as a result.

To serve, Martin Luther King Jr. said, all you need is a soul generated by love. We are "God-in-action" through our smiles, our willing hands, our busy feet, our gentle voices, and all the other ways we find to show our love.

We mourn with those who mourn; weep with those in tears. John Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century Dutch mystic, said "compassion is a wounding of the heart which love extends to all without distinction." At the end of life, as at the beginning of life, we need communities of compassion to hold our pain.

In a talk he gave two hours before his death in 1968, the renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton said, "The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved with one another.

There's that word again. Understand. I think, obliquely, that maybe even more than love or food or shelter or sex, what the human animal craves most is for another human being to understand him.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine.

We've learned that great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness. It's like a needed reminder that the human spirit is alive and well despite all evidence to the contrary.

I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.