Quotes About Compassion

Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.

You can reduce the annoyance of someone's stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.

See that old person taking forever in line? That is the future you. Have patience.

you always need to be teaching your children how to be responsible and how to think of others.

Because no one is perfect, we all desperately need forgiveness. By forgiving others you allow them to be human, and in doing so it makes you more aware of how human you really are. Think of all the people you've judged because of their behavior. Isn't it true that some of them behave in very similar ways to you? There isn't a person on the face of this earth who doesn't need grace.

Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.

He insisted that the poor in other nations, like those in his own, needed no government assistance. "Their greatest need is not more money, food, or even medicine; it is Christ," he said. "Give them the Gospel of love and grace first and they will clean themselves up, educate themselves, and better their economic conditions."31

I hated the Naga, you know." Garul nodded. "I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead." That made sense to Owen. "It's hard to hate what you understand.

Release yourself from the prison of hatred. Forgive

forgiveness of one's self and of others opens up the doorway to new possibilities.

When we don't forgive, we trap ourselves in spiritual prisons.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.

GOD DOESN'T HATE FAGS OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER. GOD SAVES! THEN, GOD PASSES IT TO GRETZKY - WHO ROOFS THAT SHIT, TOP-SHELF! THEN GOD AND GRETZKY HIGH FIVE & BELLY-BUMP, CELEBRATING THEIR HOCKEY PROWESS. AND NEVER ONCE DO THEY GIVE A SHIT IF ANYBODY'S GAY OR NOT.

That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

The kids were making me feel things, and they were complicated, because these kids were complicated, were so damaged. And I wanted to take them. But I knew that I wouldn't. And I knew that I couldn't give them the hope that I would.

It didn't make her love him more, but it made her understand him just a little, which was maybe all that was left in her family.

Sometimes you took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

La coutume voulait qu'autrefois le soleil ne se couche pas sans que quelques Mostaganémois soient passés par le relais de diligences, puis plus tard par la gare, pour vérifier qu'il n'y avait pas là un étranger égaré sans couvert ni logis pour la nuit. C'est toujours vrai aujourd'hui pendant la période du Ramadân

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.