Quotes About Compassion

It isn't nice to hurt other people, and if you absolutely must hurt someone, it's important that you never do it on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, or maybe even a day or two before or after that.

There's a time in the middle of our lives when we tend to have it under good control, but coming into the world and going out of the world, we're much more vulnerable. We need help. And being willing to be that help for someone is a very high calling, in my opinion. It's really the purest definition of the word serve.

Loving someone is knowing them.

How can you do that to a person? Hate them when they haven't even done anything to you?

Until you get it that's he's only what his experience has shaped him to be, you're seeing him as subhuman. As 'other' somehow. And the danger in the meantime is that he'll see that. He'll know how you view him. When you see a child as 'less than,' it's not long before self-fulfilling prophecy comes into play.

Ben prioritizes my sorrow over his own.

What did it mean to be friends in a world where just walking down the street together could get someone viciously beaten? In what ways could that friendship be expressed?

OK. So your story sadder'n mine. OK. But my story still my story. I mean…even if somebody else got it worse. What I got was bad enough. You know?

What the hell is wrong with people?

Is this person I'm supposed to be judging our tribe, or another tribe? If she's us, mistakes can be forgiven. Hell, everybody makes mistakes. The mistake becomes an anomaly, because it's us, and we're good people. If she's them, mistakes need to be punished, because that's just how they are.

Let's say you were starving. You were going to die any day of starvation. Would you go into a supermarket and steal a can of tuna?" "I'm a vegan." "Nobody's a vegan when they're starving.

When somebody holds a view that seems to make no sense, know that it makes sense to them, but for reasons you don't know anything about yet.

was something contagious. "I'm not sure what you're

this was his single greatest quality: he made everybody feel dear. And the sad truth of this world is that not many people feel that way, and not much of the time. I

Let me go!" Seth shot out. "Tell me what's going on." "Not with you holding me prisoner." "I'm not holding you prisoner. I'm trying to hold you. I'm trying to put my arms around you and give you a hug, but you're fighting so hard you can't tell.

Now how the hell am I supposed to make amends to myself?" "Don't hurt yourself anymore." It was like someone opened up the curtains and let light into the room, and all of a sudden I could see it was daylight, and had been all this time.

I'm trying to learn to be a nicer person.

he slings me up to Yozzy's back. I ease gently down onto her. After all, it is her back. Not a motorcycle seat, or a bale of straw, but the fine vertebrae of a sentient being.

So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is." They stood quietly a moment,

But I've seen a lot of people walk a lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is.

Here the world is full of all these men trying to model what it means to be a man, but they don't truly know. They think it means be tough, feel nothing, betray nothing. And then Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

The longer you live, the more you'll see that the inside of everybody is a lot like the inside of everybody else. If you're feeling something, more likely than not it's just what anyone would feel.

tea. "I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?

this was his single greatest quality: he made everybody feel dear. And the sad truth of this world is that not many people feel that way, and not much of the time.