Quotes About Compassion

He said, where there is love, there is my grace.

I must recognise that in the same situation, I could have been either a killer or an evader... What I do not accept, however, are the old clichés that to explain is to excuse, to understand is to forgive. Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving.

If you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others. And the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

To an outsider, building a school before there was a medical clinic, or someone to deal with the problems of hunger and homelessness, was illogical, but Farmer and Lafontant understood that the school meant hope and empowerment.

Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just like him. He added, Because if the poor have to wait for a lot of people like Paul to come along before they get good health care, they are totally fucked.

There are some things you just do because it's the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else's hands. I want to believe there's value in that. You're doing everything you can for the patient, but you're not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn't worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.

Just give love," it read in part. "The soul will take that love / and put it where it can best be used.

Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems too, or that you're in a hurry.

We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios here [Haiti], suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating 'nonsustainable' projects. If a patient says, I really need a Bible or nail clippers, well, for God's sake!

Medicine is not efficient," I heard Jim say to a group of interns many years after Taube had retired. "It's not supposed to be efficient. It has nothing to do with efficiency.

As the first component of social competence, social awareness is a foundational skill. Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them. This often means perceiving what other people are thinking and feeling even if you do not feel the same way.

Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationship management skills; social competence is your ability to understand other people's moods, behavior and motives in order to improve the quality of your relationships.

Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them. This often means perceiving what other people are thinking and feeling even if you do not feel the same way.

S?k?lmak ve k?zmak benim dostumun kulland??? duygulardan de?ildir.

It's not easy being a saint. Mercy! None of this is easy, Nella. 'Follow your heart!' People always say that. They mean well, I'm sure. But sometimes, we need to overrules our hearts. We need to be brave. We need to be kind because we should, not because it's easy. -Sister Rosa

Kindness is the truest thing there is -Sister Rosa

I don't think you can ever call kindness a mistake -Mr. Sabatini

Dad's talent was giving magic hugs. When you were in the magic middle of one, you magically felt kind toward the whole world. You magically couldn't stay mad at anyone or thing for long.

Telling the truth is not always easy, especially when you feel that the disclosure will hurt someone you love. But withholding information to protect someone is not only unfair to them, it is counterproductive to the relationship.

A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.

them. When we see love in action, compassion in the face of hatred or anger, forgiveness in the face of pain and suffering, we are looking at and experiencing the kingdom of God right where we stand.

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.