Quotes About Compassion

Lord you gave your only son to remedy a condition, but who knows but what the death of my only son might bring an end to lynching.

After all, how do you give a crash course in hatred to a boy who has only known love?

Cruelty was fear in disguise and nothing more. And hadn't one of Japeth's holy strangers said that fear itself was nothing more than a failure of the imagination?

The dead by the road, or on it, testify to the presence of man. Their little gestures of pain—paws, wings and tails—are the saddest, the loneliest, most forlorn postures of the dead I can imagine. When we have stopped killing animals as though they were so much refuse, we will stop killing one another. But the highways show our indifference to death, so long as it is someone else's. It is an attitude of the human mind I do not grasp. ? Timothy Findley

Ha nem tudjuk kifejezni gondolatainkat és érzéseinket, akkor emberi mivoltunkat sem tudjuk egészében megélni. Ha nem hallhatjuk és láthatjuk embertársaink érzéseit és gondolatait, akkor soha nem fogjuk megérteni, mit jelent másvalakinek lenni.

Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appreciate- or not- for no reason.

My cause, first, midst, last, and always," he wrote, "was and is that of the black man; not because he is black, but because he is a man.

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If

He cares about non-Chiss lives. Yes, he does, Samakro agreed. You threaten his people, and see how fast that changes.

A friend In need is a friend indeed

But he told me hatred was wrong, that it was one of those things that hurt the hater more than the people he hated. He told me there can be justice without hatred, and punishment without revenge. He said we were all responsible for what we do and what we don't do, and no one should have to pay for someone else's crimes.

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty. -Kuchiki Rukia

Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!

If I ask, will you answer? It's your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I'll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it's okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I'll wait." - Rukia Kuchiki

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

What's really ugly is judging others based on how they look.

People who call others ugly are the ugly ones.

Whenever people grow close… a heart is born between them. It isn't inside our bodies. Whenever we care about something… whenever we care about another person… a heart is born. If you were alone in the world…I don't think you could have a heart.

A Shinigami has to treat all spirits equally. You cannot just conveniently save those you can see, those you can reach. You must save all spirits. To go anywhere for them, to even give your life to save them." - Rukia Kuchiki

he felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words, surely the most beautiful words written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.

I had no right to see them this way.

Because they were alone. In fact everyone was alone all the time, but when you got sick you knew it, and that was a lot of what suffering was-knowing.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.