Quotes About Compassion

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that love is a feeling. You don't always kiss people you love. 'Sometimes you just love them

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand—every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.

If a child is kidnapped from hell and carried to heaven, should we condemn the kidnapper?

In Cambodia, it's unfortunately common for husbands both to drink and to beat their wives. Other families are abandoned, left to fend for themselves. Instead, my husband runs through the city for the better part of the night to make sure that his wife and son are safe.

Three words, Sang Ly, three simple words that communicate more, mean more, than worldly riches. Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms. Even Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.' Do you understand?

Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.' Do

Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

accolades, let us simply remember to: LaughMore, for laughter is the window through which we glimpse the joy of God; HopeMore, because tomorrow life will give us another chance; GiveMore, for when we share our time, we share our most prized possession; ForgiveMore, because as we forgive others, we learn to also forgive ourselves; and LoveMore, for while faith may have the power to move mountains, love has the remarkable power to change the human heart.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Aiden didn't say anything. He reached out a hand to trace a nail biting into his flesh. "Christ's pain should always be my pain. I should never forget. I never want to. I want to keep reaching out to other people in pain." He sighed. "It doesn't always work that way. I fail more than I succeed." "Why try?" "Because I can't afford to. Look at Him." He stretched out his hands as if beseeching the picture. "He wouldn't give up.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. —Abraham Lincoln

I consider myself a good Christian. I go to church every Sunday. I do charitable work. I am kind to children and animals. I don't lie, cheat, or steal. I believe I am a good person. And I will not be thought sinful simply because I take pleasure in the man I love.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

We do not set greed against greed or hatred against hatred," he thundered. "Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

It is one of the precious mysteries of sorrow that it finds solace in unselfish thought. - James A. Garfield

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland