Quotes About Compassion

I know you mustn't think that I understand, that I'm a heartless bitch who couldn't possibly understand, but I do. Believe me, I do. I understand because I'm going through it too.

When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, 'Bold ground,' then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities.

A helping hand can come from the most unlikely of places

If anyone ever says to you that people in the United States don't have kindness in their hearts anymore, don't believe them. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the unselfish help and trust of so many people who reached out to me. In this country, those two beautiful ladies in San Diego were the very first, but they wouldn't be the last.

Vei fi iubit în ziua în care vei putea s?-Å£i ar??i sl?biciunile f?r? ca cel?lalt s? se foloseasc? de asta pentru a-ÅŸi spori puterea.

Heroes never panic. They're always the people who can have a nuclear bomb dropped on their city or crash in an airplane and manage to organize a group, help the survivors, outsmart the enemy, or at least just not break down in tears.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?

And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life.

You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.

God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.

Jestliže se chceÅ¡ dotknout srdce nÄ›jakého ?lovÄ›ka, musíÅ¡ vidÄ›t jeho tváÃ…â"¢. Do duÅ¡e se nedostaneÅ¡ telefonem.

But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone.

And in that silence he began to hear the world crying.' - Chaim Potok, The Chosen

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

It hurts a father to see a son this way. It makes no difference what age the son is; it hurts.

Mon maître le lecteur, que ceci soit pour vous un avertissement ! Ne dites jamais que vous savez ce que vaut l'aune de telle histoire. Souvent cette histoire si gaie, si folle, si amusante, aura germé toute gonflée de larmes, de faim, de misères, dans l'esprit de celui qui l'écrira plus tard.

I told him I would go up there; he said no, no, everything was fine. I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. He was fast asleep; after the stroke he sometimes nodded off in the middle of things. I woke him, and when he saw me he patted my cheek. 'Good boy,' he muttered. I made him change his clothes and then fixed us a dinner of fried rice from some leftovers.

He didn't say anything and just helped me to my room...He gently patted my back and then left the house and drove off to one of his stores in the city.

I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you. ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.