Quotes About Compassion

emphasized that anger is a signal that someone wants to be treated differently, which is healthy; cruelty is when someone deliberately wants to hurt someone

When someone says they don't care if you're sexually satisfied and they don't care if you want to go to nice restaurants instead of car races, they're at least indifferent and unkind. He was nice when you were dating and until he got your dad's money.

Laura, you're demanding that I act like the parent you had, the man who was uninterested in your pain. You're used to no one responding to your sadness, but I don't want that role. Right now I feel in a bind.

Okay, okay, I can see that she couldn't love me, but why did she hate me and call me a monster?" "Why did the gorilla hit the tiny baby gorilla and no other one?" Madeline was silent for a long time. "The infant wanted what she couldn't give.

One was the rule of human nature: You get what you give. That phrase galvanized her. She'd had no idea that she had the right to give her mother only what she received from her—which was precious little.

Why don't you picture pushing away all your defences and just sit with the question 'Why am I still nice to my mother?' And then see what floats into your mind.

They all needed to feel loved in order to live better lives.

There is no greater generosity than sharing your life story. If sharing my story helps even one person that's suffering, it would have been worth it.

sometimes grandparents who are warm and kind may have been far less so when they were parents. People will often mellow in old age.

I carefully crawled on to the side of his chest, careful not to knock out his tubes, and fell asleep. I could hear the sounds of his body working. The creaky floor sounds from his tummy. The swish of his blood. The pounding of his heart. It sounded like I was swimming and listening to the sounds of water beneath the surface of my father. This was my dad.

Get off your high horse and get yourself grounded! Know what it is like to have your world turned upside down! Your becoming a good therapist is not about putting yourself apart from the people you work with; it is about coming to know intimately their pain, their humiliation, and their ability to rise above it.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I'd long since learned that no difference in viewpoint should ever be allowed to cause the least break in love. Indeed, it cannot, if it's real love. ...But relationships can be kept intact without compromising one's own beliefs. And if we do not keep them intact, but give up and allow the chasm, we're breaking the second greatest commandment.

Everyone dies, and yet it's unendurable. There is so much love inside of us. How do we become worthy of it? And, then, where does it go? A worldwide crescendo of grief, sustained day after day, and only one tiny note of it is mine.

Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished for just this. Everything I have already. No loss. I can't spare anybody is what I always think. But, then, people must be spared. That is the whole premise of this life, of this time we have with each other.

What I'm starting to understand, finally, is that the point isn't to help the people who know how best to ask for help. It's to be helpful.

We don't think of this as a place where people come to die," the gravely cheerful intake counselor had said to us. "We think of it as a place where people come to live!" "To live dyingly,

What it is like to be any parent. The way you ache when they ache, the way you experience their stomachaches or heartaches or fear in your very self. It's as if, having once been placentally connected to your beating heart, having once inhabited your actual body, your children continue to live there with you. For better and worse, you are never alone again. Parental love defies your apartness from another person.

There are people in our lives who are like angels to us...

If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

We should all be much more careful with each other`s hearts.

We're all just doing our best.' I left out the second part. 'Even if it doesn't look so good from the outside.

If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet?