Quotes About Compassion

Then he said, "I just sort of finally got used to the idea that you didn't like me much." "No, I do. It just takes me a long time, sometimes. To figure out how I feel about something.

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective.

it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

Love explains a lot.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

Sometimes the people around you will have problems, and you'll wish they didn't, but there won't be anything you can do. You just have to trust them to get by as best they can.

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.

After a moment August felt Henry's arms wrap around his chest, and the little guy's face pressed up hard on his shoulder. "Don't be sad, August," the little mouse voice said.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

an easy smile, which he gives away for free.

I just think it's odd how we parse out our empathy," he said. "Why we only have empathy for those who remind us most of ourselves.

I can't help wondering what the world would be like if our empathy muscle were a bit more developed.

winter. Chloe throws them bits of trail mix to avoid

When you're working with dementia patients, life is hard for both of you, but at least you don't have to keep coming up with new repartee. And I really don't say that to make light of the situation. I say it to find light in the situation, which I honestly think is a favor to all involved.

The thing about a family is the love. The 'what kind?' and 'how will it work?' is nothing. That's just a thing you worry about before you learn that those details aren't what matter at all.

the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability.

He still keeps more of his insides to himself than I mightve hoped for, but things like that are never a zero-sum game. YOu get progres, you be grateful for it. In the realm of wounded humans, you're never going to have it all. Also, I should noye that in my opinion, we're all wouned humans. The rest is just a matter of degree." Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometimes it's easy to want something for somebody else, even if it's more than you want for yourself.

Any decent man has to feel something for a woman who dearly loves him. Gratitude, if he can muster nothing else.

You can be just a regular, real person and still be the magic somebody else needs in her life. We do it for each other all the time. It's that everyday sort of magic. We're all capable of it, I do believe, but still you don't always see people living up to that potential.

Dear, dear Ruthie," he said, and grasped one of my hands in both of his. And although it was an oversimplification of the man, it struck me that 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.

Maybe because if we cared that much about everything, all the time, all at the same time like that, we'd die of exhaustion. We'd have no time or energy left to run our own lives.