Quotes About Compassion

When you wake up in the morning, think, "What can I do to make her day or his day just a little happier?

the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

It is our duty to help those who need our help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.

Sonuç olarak daha iyi bir dünya aray???, ba?ka insanlar?n, bir dü?ünce u?runa ya?amlar?n? istemeyerek feda etmeyece?i bir dünya aray??? olmal?d?r.

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.

There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal around a table.

God bless you," Jeb said. "Not God. It's just people. People helping people. That's all we got.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

How do you help someone who doesn't recognize they have a brain illness? It's not their fault the brain can't inform itself that something's gone haywire.

Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.

My grandpa has always told us that you know you're in love when your heart goes "boom." The way he explained this "boom" is that it's not the giddy feeling you get when you first meet someone; it's deeper than that. It's more of a low, bellowing boom that resonates in your body the moment you realize you need someone, you love someone. It's more a boooom than a boom! I have yet to feel it.

She cried herself out in a couple of minutes, sniffed a little, and wiped her eyes on the tail of his shirt. "Thanks for the shoulder." "Considering I'm the guy who got you here, it's the least I could do.

Maggie was crying hard and I rubbed her back. I couldn't stop looking at my dad. "Me, you, Lester, Lucy. We're all good people who have done stupid things. We have to look out for one another, Maggie. Rescue each other even," he said. "You know how to do that better than anyone.

We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future." "And if we are killed?" "Then others must remember us .

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

No! I will not calm down! He should be fired. WE should have him fired! You're clearly depressed and he needs to help you. He can't tell you to try harder next time That's sick! SICK!

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

Many of the world's problems would be solved if people would just shut up and pass the cupcakes.