Quotes About Compassion

Me sobra tiempo. Me sobra el futuro completo. Quiero dártelo, hija, porque has perdido el tuyo.

Me será muy difícil vengar a todos lo que tienen que ser vengados, porque mi venganza no sería más que otra parte del mismo rito inexorable. Quiero pensar que mi oficio es la vida y que mi misión es no prolongar el odio, sino solo llenar estas paginas [...]

Me será muy difícil vengar a todos los que tienen que ser vengados, porque mi venganza no sería más que otra parte del mismo rito inexorable. Quiero pensar que mi oficio es la vida y que mi misión no es prolongar el odio, sino sólo llenar estas páginas [...]

Quién más sabe, más obligación tiene hacia la humanidad.

They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.

Isabel Allende

el extraño poder curativo de las palabras, de compartir el dolor y comprobar que otros también tienen su

trataron de sugerirle que no eran las casitas de ladrillo ni los litros de leche los que hacían a un buen patrón, o a un buen cristiano, sino dar a la gente un sueldo decente en vez de papelitos rosados, un horario de trabajo que no les moliera los riñones y un poco de respeto y dignidad. Trueba no quería oír hablar de esas cosas que, según él, olían a comunismo.

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

This isn't your fault, you know. It really isn't. You'll get though this. (page 151)

You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell

They always shared equally, even if all they had was a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit. Today she had brought back fried fish and stewed onions with bread and other things that you would not put together if you had the luxury of considering the pleasure of the mouth.

Most of the staff members were like that; they returned smiling after we hurt them. It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us.

I only liked talking to her because I felt that she didn't judge me for what I had been a part of; she looked at me with the same inviting eyes and welcoming smile that said I was a child.

The only thing that consoled him, for a few seconds at least, was when the woman who had embraced him, and now cried with him, told him that at least he would have the chance to bury them. He would always know where they were laid to rest, she said. She seemed to know a little more about war than the rest of us.

She was wearing her white uniform and was on her way to take on other traumatized children. It must be tough living with so many war stories. I was just living with one, mine, and it was difficult, as the nightmares about what had happened continued to torment me. Why does she do it? Why do they all do it? I thought as we went our separate ways. It was the last time I saw her. I loved her but never told her.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

Love means never having to say you're a zero.

I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.