Quotes About Compassion

I am so tired of your crap. Do you honestly think you suffer more than everyone else? Do you think you suffer more than I do? Do you think you're the first person to ever have a baby? Or lose someone? Do you think you're some goddamned pioneer when it comes to grief?

Just because something is a small problem doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones" -Anya

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.

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

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?

The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything

I worry for you. If you love everyone, you'll end up having hurt feelings most of the time.

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

I've made so many mistakes,' she says. 'I can't help you,' I say. She shakes her head and picks up the baby. 'We'll be out of your way now,' she says. 'Merry Christmas.' "And they leave. I'm pretty shaken up, so I go into the kitchen to make myself some tea. When I get back out to the living room, I notice that the little girl has left her backpack and Tamerlane is on the floor next to it.

The way I see it," Lambiase says, "you saved A. J. Fikry's life when you stole that manuscript. That's the way I see it." "What kind of cop are you?" Ismay asks. "The old kind," he says.

We are that we love.

Why are you crying?" "I was reading.

once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.

The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. No

Let her know you're there. And if you can manage it, bring her a cookie, a book, a movie to watch. Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.

In his apartment, he finds Maya by herself. Her eyes look moist. "I threw up, Daddy." "I'm sorry." A.J. locates the lighter in his drawer. He slams the drawer shut. "Where's Amelia?" "Are you going to propose?" Maya asks. "No, darling. Not at this particular moment. I've got to deliver a lighter to an alcoholic." She considers this information. "Can I come with you?" she asks.

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?

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Caroline and I had reached out to each other from similar shelters of quiet and solitude.

The sense of solidarity among the poor was often—although certainly not always—strong. Housewives with very little still fed hungry tramps who came to their back doors. Pauline Kael, a teenager during the Depression who grew up to be a famous film critic, remembered her mother vowing: "I'll feed them till the food runs out.

I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

This week I've learned that when you really love someone, you come to accept everything about them, all the moments in their history that have made them into just what they are. And I can accept everything in your past, because it has made you you .