Quotes About Compassion

I decided that I must never let an unhappiness go unremarked or uncomforted again, and if I saw anybody unhappy, I would talk to them.

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

Yolandi, the central character in the book All My Puny Sorrows says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault?

La Mariche Loewen alça la mà. […] Diu que opina que el més importat no és preguntar-se si les dones són animals sinó si les dones s'han de venjar del mal que se'ls ha fet. O bé si han de perdonar els homes i, amb això, aconseguir que se'ls obrin les portes del cel.

Va dir que si hagués estat en aquell prat amb mi, m'hauria ajudat a aconseguir aquella sensació d'haver obtingut d'una manera o altra el perdó. Però el perdó de què en concret?, li vaig preguntar jo. D'haver robat peres?, d'haver dibuixat noies despullades? No, no, va fer ella, el perdó de ser viu, de ser al món.

El més important no és preguntar-se si les dones són animals sinó si les dones s'han de venjar del mal que se'ls ha fet. O bé si han de perdonar els homes i, amb això, aconseguir que se'ls obrin les portes del cel.

No trobeu que la mentida de fer veure que es perdona amb paraules però no de cor és més greu que el simple fet de no perdonar?

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named - when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion towards the people who invented the concept of telling time. How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human.

Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson. Because I would start to love them, he said.

We will feel anguish and we will feel sorrow and we will feel uncertainty and we will feel sadness, but not guilt, says Agata. Mariche amends: We may feel guilty but we will know we are not guilty.

I had an unusually deep need to be forgiven, even though I had done nothing wrong

Estem perdent el temps, clama la Greta, passant la càrrega, el sac de rocs, de l'una a l'altra, traient-nos el dolor de sobre. Això, no ho hem de fer. No ens hem de passar la patata calenta del patiment. Que cadascú s'empassi el seu, diu. L'inspirem, el païm i el convertim en combustible.

When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.

and I finally understand what she needs to hear and that she's talking about not just me but Elf too and I tell her that my sorrow was not created by her, that my childhood was a joyful thing, an island in the sun, that her mothering is impeccable, that she is not to blame.

Listen, I said, I don't think you understand. I don't want to be presumptuous, but really how could you understand what another person's suicide means? My friend asked the waitress for more coffee. I said that actually, now, I'd begun to measure a person's character and integrity by their ability to kill themselves.

I don't know why saying bowel movement and stool is better than vag and piehole. It doesn't matter what words you use in life, it's not gonna prevent you from suffering.

On the days she gets the death calls she grabs at me when I walk past her and I know she wants affection, but I hate always having to be the embodiment of life.

Miriam Toews

Ljudi su ljudi i sve je ljudsko samo ljudsko, nažalost!

God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too.

Because there is one God, all people are related to that one God on equal terms. The central command of that one God is to love neighbors—to treat others as we would like them to treat us, as expressed in the Golden Rule. We cannot claim any rights for ourselves and our group that we are not willing to give to others. Whether as a stance of the heart or as outward practice, religion cannot be coerced.[217]

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.