Quotes About Compassion

We try and we fail, like archers who aim for the target but fall short of the mark.' ... 'When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see -- there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

We try and fail, like archers who aim for the target but fall short of the mark.' Eva watched as she removed the lace shawl. 'When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see – there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

Don't take away another person's process.

It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.

We are an army of broken and damaged angels, yet our light shines so bright it's like moths to a flame.

Children need communication at times even as horrible as these, but it must be judicious communication. Do not mention suicidal thoughts or gestures. Just something simple. "Mommy is sick. She is very sad. She needs to go to the hospital. She will get better and be home soon. The doctors will take good care of her." Even telling children that "Mommy has a brain disorder" is better than saying nothing, or than saying that her heart hurts.

Random acts of kindness were certainly scarce in this place and sometimes came from the most unexpected source.

Here was gossip, cooking, boot- and diaper-drying and all the other business that man has ever performed before a fire. Here also could always be found someone with the soul of a concierge who could lead you through the maze of woolen-walled corridors to the room within a room that you were seeking, telling you meanwhile every detail of what went on behind that particular khaki curtain. As

Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.

Seek joy in what you give, not in what you get

His dad always told him praying was merely talking to God. So he talked. I need help. I don't know how to handle this. If Whitney decides to have an abortion, I'm not sure I can accept it. Can I be with her after she… could I even think this… after she kills my child? I don't know.

God wants us to forgive each other, Rick, and help each other be better people. He never wanted us to judge.

a man cannot embrace a woman's faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.

To find love you must first be willing to give it.

People throughout the world may look different, or have a different religion, education or position but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved." Above

Smile at Jesus in your suffering - for to be a real Missionary of Charity you must be a cheerful victim.

to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary

she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together

It was to be a place for the forgotten, the abandoned and the homeless who faced a terrible illness alone. Unlike the Gift of Love home, it would have the capacity to accommodate women and children as well as men.

The communist authorities told Mother Teresa that they had no poor in China, because in China the government looked after the poor, whereupon Mother Teresa informed them that she was delighted to hear that they had no poor but that she thought perhaps there might be some people who were disheartened and in need of a little encouragement. She and her Sisters would like to bring hope to the discouraged. That much the Chinese government was prepared to allow them to do.

In the words of India's President Girl, Mother Teresa was 'among those emancipated souls who have transcended all barriers of race, religion, creed and nation.

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.