Quotes About Compassion

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Some family,' I said. 'No one's paying attention to the mother. Who could blame her if she took off? Look at them.' A minute or so went by, and then Mrs. Windermere said, in a voice as soft as summer blue air, 'Skinny Delivery Boy, you have it all wrong. Look how she's standing close to her little one. She's looking around to watch for the next spectacular thing that's going to come into his life.' And I'm not lying, she was right.

Then Lucas would try to turn over, and there would be a low moan, and Christopher would get up, and I knew that Lucas was awake in the dark that he carried around with him all the time. 'What can I do?' Christopher would say. 'You weren't there. You can't do anything.' None of us knew how to make it light.

Like what might happen if Coach Reed rang the doorbell at The Dump some afternoon and sat down next to Lucas. Like knowing that Principal Peattie is wrong about what he said. Like laying a missing bird picture back where it's supposed to be. Like someone seeing what a chump you are and getting you a cold Coke anyway. Like Possibility.

My brother looked at me. I looked at him. Sometimes- and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second- sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put on the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by. It was the first watch my brother had ever owned. It was the first watch I had ever owned.

Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked. My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile. Really, a smile. 'Not in a million years,' he said.

And Meryl Lee thought, I wonder how this happens. You live side by side for a while, and suddenly you realize you like living side by side, and you can't imagine not living side by side because you've become friends. And then your friends become friends with one another, and they sit beside one another and cry. How does that happen? But isn't it good that it does?

There are times...when we find ourselves in a position of great purpose. It may be that the apt word, spoken at the apt moment, leads to great good in the world—and most often, that is a word of kindness and encouragement.

As a parent, you can't completely avoid making mistakes. Accept it.

Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.

What's the ONE Thing I can do to help others...

The first part of this drill is to resist the temptation to label other people as stupid because of their "stupid" activities or assertions. Most people aren't stupid. They have somehow gotten captured by a flawed belief. The second part of the drill is to turn into a detective and try to find this flawed belief. The third part is to devise a way to help the other person discover how to replace the belief.

We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.

It can be shattering when these creatures die.

The word euthanasia literally means "good death.

Tener hijos nos hace madurar. Cuidar un animal nos hace más humanos

Until one has loved an animal," wrote Anatole France, "a part of one's soul remains unawakened." Almost anyone who has ever let an animal under his or her skin will agree that for all the aggravations and heartaches that come with having a pet, the return in love, affection, and memory can make it all worthwhile.

If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however "humanely" we treat them.

When it comes to animals, we suffer from moral schizophrenia.

Baz? hayvanlar? sevip onlara ailemizin birer üyesi gibi muamele ederken, onlara hissetme yetilerinden, duygusal kapasitelerinden, kendilerinin fark?nda olan birer ki?i olduklar?ndan asla ?üphe duymazken, onlardan hiç de farkl? olmayan ba?ka hayvanlar?n ölü bedenlerine çatal b?çaklar?m?z? saplamam?za neden olan ahlaki ?izofrenimize son vermemiz gerekir!