Quotes About Compassion

Daisy's thoughts after getting the tiger back to his cage: That every living being was part of every other living being. That all were part of God. Bound by love. Put on earth to care for one another.

Typical of those who didn't know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people's troubles so they could feel better about themselves.

Ya no te amo —susurró ella—. No te amo en absoluto. A él se le puso un nudo en la garganta. —No importa, cariño. Yo tengo amor suficiente por los dos.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Ya no te amo. —No importa, cariño. Yo tengo amor suficiente por los dos.

She loved him. There it was. The thing she'd vowed would never happen. She loved Theo Harp. Not just his body or his face. Not just for sex or companionship. Definitely not for his money. She loved him for who he was. For his beautiful, tortured, kind soul.

Sometimes the best part of loving somebody is loving them even though they've hurt you. Listen to me, Joel. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.

But you've brought him happiness, Eponine; he is happy because of you — and that was my only comfort as I cried and cried, feeling so lonely, in my house of leaves.

Don't be too hard on yourself. There are plenty of people willing to do that for you. Love yourself and be proud of everything that you do. Even mistakes mean you're trying.

Come, little one, and let us learn of love.

We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing!

There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.

Marie de Hennezel, a French psychologist who works with the terminally ill, believes that "the person who can say to someone else 'I am going to die' does not become the victim of death but, rather, the protagonist in his or her own dying.

If there weren't so many damned umlauts in Pema's last name—it is a royal pain to find the damned symbol list—she might be worth consulting and quoting, for she believes that "when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition that others also feel this." Can I learn to deepen compassion by realizing that my distress is shared, that there are many other people all over the world feeling pain worse than mine?

The novelist Ian McEwan, who credits fiction with providing the possibility of "imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself," argues that this process is "the basis of all sympathy": "Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.

You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love." So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.

once we get to know individuals who may be different from ourselves, it is less likely we will be wary of them. And maybe, just maybe, we will learn a little more about ourselves.

Nothing says "I love you" more than patting your boyfriend's back as his head is in a toilet, barfing up warm Bud Light.

The nurse broke

Her father's words suddenly came to her, Considering people who are undergoing situations much worse than yours doesn't make yours any easier, but it can help to change your perspective.

when one person gives

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.