Quotes About Compassion

But it did make me realize that I shouldn't go around judging people who have stringy hair, because maybe they have a very good reason for having hair like that.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Finally, through the gray, we saw them. Three officers on horseback led. We ran outside to cheer, but the men were quiet and thin. The sight of them took my breath away. "They have no shoes," Elizabeth whispered. We watched for several minutes as they passed by. We were unable to speak. Their footprints left blood in the snow.

No one who truly understands grace will tell a person their sin is beyond it.

What was the point of praying every day and believing in forgiveness if you weren't willing to accept this?

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps?

You don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing." "I'm supposed to watch her make a mistake?" "Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Jean reached over for Elsa's hand and held it. Elsa hadn't known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

There was something she hadn't known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us.

It's like his back is broken, Mama had said, and you don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

How can we call ourselves the land of the free when people are living on the streets and dying of hunger?

If he loved you guys, he wouldn't hurt you." He made it sound so simple, as if it were a mathematical equation. But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

Uno mira hacia atrás con agradecimiento a los maestros brillantes, pero con gratitud a aquellos que tocaron nuestros sentimientos humanos. El plan de estudios es tanto la materia prima necesaria, pero el calor es el elemento vital de la planta en crecimiento y para el alma del niño