Quotes About Compassion

There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?

It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;

I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

I'm urging you to raise your children the way God raises His. The primary word that defines how God deals with His children is grace.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Stories can save us.

Peace of mind is not a simple matter of pursuing one's own pleasure; rather, it is inextricably linked to the attitudes of other human beings, to what they want, to what they expect.

Dobbins shrugged his shoulders. What's serious? I was a kid. This thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn't the religious part that interested me. Just being nice to people, that's all. Being decent.

Henry Dobbins made the washing motion with his hands. You're right, he said. All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?

Martha shut her eyes. She crossed her arms at her chest as if suddenly cold and said she was glad he hadn't tried it. She didn't understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and Martha said, The things men do. Then he nodded. It began to form. Oh, he said, those things.

When the boy hopped away, Azar clucked his tongue and said, 'War's a bitch.' He shook his head sadly. 'One leg, for Crissake. Some poor fucker ran out of ammo.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

what is the lesson of history, if not that we owe each other more bread, more friendship, fewer lies, less cruelty.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.

To live you gotta be hard, I know that. But nobody wants to be a deadset cunt. That's just not fucking decent.

People are fools, not monsters

That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.