Quotes About Compassion

Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

in the end it was better to have the love of a confessed killer, than to have no love at all, especially when you were just twelve years old.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

Over time, I came to see reaching out to people as a way to make a difference in people's lives as well as a way to explore and learn and enrich my own; it became the conscious construction of my life's path.

connecting—sharing my knowledge and resources, time and energy, friends and associates, and empathy and compassion in a continual effort to provide value to others, while coincidentally increasing my own.

It's better to give before you receive.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you know that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

Touching people's lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion.

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

the way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Life was, in fact, cheap. If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away. If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand...

She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?" Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?" Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?" Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them.

You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.*

You people did a good thing." "That's what we do," Nate said quietly.

Mick never wants me to talk to his women. They end up crying on my shoulder because they've found out that he has once again philandered. What am I gonna do? Well, it's a long ride to the airport, honey; let me think about it. The tears that have been on this shoulder from Jerry Hall, from Bianca, from Marianne, Chrissie Shrimpton… They've ruined so many shirts of mine.

Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.

So," Simon said. "Looks like you and Derek are getting along again. What happened? Did he give you the look?" "Look?" "You know. The one that makes him look like a whipped puppy, and makes you feel like a jerk for doing the whipping." "Ah, that one. So it works on you, too?" He snorted. "It even works on Dad. We give in, we tell him it's okay, and the next thing you know, he's chewing up slippers again." I laughed.

When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.

Because love isn't just love. It's all the other stuff, too.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

People want miracles. Sometimes the only miracle is, I take your hand. That's the miracle." A