Quotes About Compassion

Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

I should be mortified, I know. But Alys is a good friend to me, and though she has her faults, she has a good and generous heart.(Emily) And is that all that matters to you? (Draven) Aye. People will always make mistakes, but in the end 'tis their heart that matters most. (Emily)

I didn't think you'd allow me to attend. (Emily) I'm a beast, Emily, not a bastard. (Draven)

She reached up to place her fingertips to his lips as she stared up at him with a warm, tender expression. "I wish you had come home to me so that I could have helped you." He pulled the cloth away from her face and stared at her for a hard second. "Had I known what was waiting for me, my lady, I would have." -Christian and Adara

You can't save the world, Stryder. (Rowena) If I save one person, then I have saved their world. Homes are not built of one single slab, but rather they are made of hundreds of stones. If one stone is crushed, then the entire house is compromised, if not ruined. I might not save them all, but I have to save as many as I can. (Stryder)

Her father had always said a person could tell much about a man by the way he dealt with animals, simpletons, and children. -Adara's thoughts

Arthur's motto was that might should never make right. Right should make right. The duty of knights and men is to fight for those who can't fight for themselves." -Phantom

Why does the Dragon hate Phantom so?" she asked as she washed her face while Christian placed a small trunk of personal items beside their bed. "Basically everyone hates Phantom, Adara. He was never one to go out of his way to make a friend." "Yet you befriended him. Why?" He shrugged. "No one deserves to be alone. He needed a friend, he just didn't know it.

A man protects those who need it most. Those who cannot protect themselves." -Sin

A jovial man can be happy with anyone, but when a sad one laughs, he treasures that one who brings him the sunshine. (Cat)

What I've learned is that everything in life - and I mean, even the worst of it - can be turned into grace...the test is - for even one moment in our lives - not to strike back at something, no matter how bad it gets...when you're faced with the temptation to get angry or upset and to hit back - you just don't do it. You let the temptation roll over you and not touch you. The idea is not to add to the collective pain...and by not doing so, you make the world a better place.

Jemubhai looked at his father, a barely educated man venturing where he should not be, and the love in Jemubhai's heart mingled with pity, the pity with shame.

my joyous companion of the mornings. Who knows what pain we cause our dearest ones?

Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than to gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

A dog has no money. A dog has no rights. A dog has no way to communicate his grievances. I am a dog. God help me.

For me, nothing can change the fact that your happiness is indistinguishable from mine.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

But the whole thing with new people, aliens or not, is that you can't go in just looking at the ways you are different and decide you'll never get along. You have to look for the ways you are the same. They can be hard to find but they are almost always there. And once you find a little common ground, that's how you get to know each other better. We just discovered a new alien species.

She put the needs of a few of those closest to her ahead of the many.

Peace is born of mutual understanding

Everyone you help's gonna want a piece of you. Give what you can, but you'll be worthless to all of them unless you stay whole.

Our lives our designed to have three parts. The first is education. The second, creation. And in part three, we put our experience to use and protect those who are weaker.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.