Quotes About Compassion

There is no purity to bearing pain alone.

That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove." What is the "freight"? he wondered. What is the "groove"?

the more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.

They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it. One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity. The least he could do was return the favor.

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate." "But Daddy killed people, didn't he?" "Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.

There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy. But with people like your friend, you must be exceptionally gentle, or they may break.

But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.

Marx's life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity. The least he could do was return the favor.

Exactly. I could save the princess, even when I could barely get out of bed. So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

A year and a half alter, she could tell the story to Dov as an amusing brunch anecdote, and she realized she wasn't angry at Sam anymore. She began to feel a tenderness toward Sam and even an empathy for him.

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time. — You

Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you.

You wouldn't be abandoning me if you stopped to get a Band-Aid, you know.

I què és l'amor, al capdavall -va dir l'Alabaster-, tret del desig irracional de deixar de banda la competitivitat evolutiva per facilitar el viatge d'algú altre a través de la vida?

Can't something be both?" Said said. "Friendship is friendship, and charity is charity." Freda said. "....But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind, and this had only gotten worse in the years since she had been diagnosed with leukemia. Sadie didn't want Sam viewed through her sister's acute and often unforgiving lens.

Sam was leaning on his good foot, in the increasingly lopsided way he had to stand, and Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him — what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.

He felt that when Harvard had assigned them to be roommates, Sam had become his responsibility. So, he protected Sam, and he made the world a little easier for Sam, and it cost him next to nothing to do so. Marx's life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

And what is love, in the end?' Alabaster said. 'Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?