Quotes About Compassion

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them. Blanche Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive. Kate

In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care. "I

Here," he said. "I brought this for you." It was a small hardcover edition of an eighteenth century book called The Path of the Just with a note he had written for me inscribed on the title page. It quoted the Talmud: Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. So he was trying to save me. Why? I was having fun.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

As I walked back to my room, a scene from The Wizard of Oz sprung into my head in which the Wizard tells the Tin Man, "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." I

Every weekend, I'd drive two hours south to San Diego and stay at Steve P.'s small, squalid apartment, where he raised two sons the same way he talked to his students—with compassionate obscenity.

My dad, who was seventy-four, was now ill with myeloma and cancer in his bloodstream. My mom, who was much younger, spent every day and night taking care of him. I wanted somebody in my life to do that for me, and I wanted somebody I could do that for.

love is not about finding the right person. It's about becoming the right person.

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.

What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?

Always there where children die stone and star and so many dreams become homeless.

We are so stricken We are so stricken that we think we're dying when the street casts an evil word at us. The street does not know it, but it cannot stand such a weight; it is not used to seeing a Vesuvius of pain break out. Its memories of primeval times are obliterated, since the light became artificial and angels only play with birds and flowers or smile in a child's dream

If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won't hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may get. And you won't write anything that anyone will read a second time either.

O mineiro só é solidário no câncer. Atribuída a Otto Lara Resende no livro de mesmo nome.

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.

Americans are like that.' The other stared at him incredulously. 'It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of which one knows nothing.' 'It's just the sort of thing they do do,' said the old man. 'They would pour out their money in a cause like that.

He is a good man, and will climb up to the Six Blissful Seats. He has known sin and trouble and it has not made him bitter; he has known sorrow and it has not made him sad. In these last months that have been granted to him he is trying to do good, not