Quotes About Compassion

Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

A veces ser una buena amiga pasa por no decir nada. —¿Se supone que tengo que dejar que se equivoque? —A veces sí. Y luego recoges los pedazos.

became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

I'm sorry you had to find out about Dad, but maybe it'll help. We're human, Ruby. All of us. Just human.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound. I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground. Whisk the lamps away . . . Night.

couldn't bear to eat anything that had once had parents.

No, baby. This is one thing you and your best friend can't do together." Vianne saw Sarah's fear and embarrassment and confusion. She was trying her best to be a good girl, to smile and be strong even as tears glazed her eyes. "Oui," she said at last.

Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.

Once, a lifetime ago, she had worried about girls, only a few years older than her, who had gone missing. The stories had given her nightmares at thirteen. Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.

What was love when put up against war?

Help. It was what women did for one another, even when there was no way to accomplish it.

How long could hungry, homeless, starving people stand up for an idea?

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me. Elsa closed the journal and dressed quickly, then went to the room next door.

Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God - and each other and ourselves - in times as dark as these.

This is what the world should be, Red. People helping each other instead of killing their mothers for a little bread.

What was the right thing for a mother to say to her nearly grown daughter about the ugliness in the world? How could she be honest?

Lord knows I understand how grief and love can break you.

To forgive even when the apology tendered was as thin as fishing line and as breakable as a promise to do better.

We cannot allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. How can we call ourselves the land of the free when people are living on the streets and dying of hunger?

Elsa had discovered within herself a nearly bottomless capacity for love.

Meredith wanted to reach out and help her, but she

They passed a small dark-haired woman wearing spectacles who paced as she dictated to another woman, who was typing. "We cannot allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. How can we call ourselves the land of the free when people are living on the streets and dying of hunger? Radical change requires radical methods…

pockets than takin' care of the farmworkers.

I could tell you it was a Jean Valjean sort of stay and you would think it was romantic.