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Quotes About Compassion

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.
~ Deepak Chopra
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
~ Desmond Tutu
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
~ Desmond Tutu
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
~ Desmond Tutu
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
~ Desmond Tutu
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
~ Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
~ Desmond Tutu
Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
~ Dominic Chianese
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
~ Donald Miller
I love people and psychology. As a writer, I'm not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred's soul and play there.
~ Dorianne Laux
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
~ E. Lockhart
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.
~ Elie Wiesel
Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
~ Elie Wiesel
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't.
~ Elizabeth Berg
"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".
~ Elizabeth Goudge
There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
~ Ellen Hopkins
I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.
~ Ellen Muth
This is a bad story." "Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you." "No, you should," I say. "But—" "I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
~ Emma Donoghue
I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.
~ Erma Bombeck
Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
~ Florence Nightingale