Quotes About Compassion

I wish you'd read your poems," she said sternly. "We need poems to heal." "I'm not ready to heal," I said as gently as I could because I was afraid how she'd respond. She nodded. "I respect that," she said, and walked away.

I'm sure there are even some kind guys nice in here, but . . .

Amami quando lo merito meno, perché sarà quando ne avrò più bisogno.

I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path

But how would we repay the kindness of those who received us, if we carried the seeds of the Plague to them? What burden would we bear if, because of us, hundreds die who might have lived?

Is it even our fight? As a mental test, I always try to reverse the gender. If some ninety million little boys were having their penises amputated, would the world have acted to prevent it by now? You bet.

Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. "I wanted to show solidarity with them, but I also wanted to know exactly what their physical condition was. If

there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to do the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way.

if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

All women's lives are like that, I told myself, as I climbed the stair that led to the better-appointed rooms of the king's house. Which of them ever is mistress of her own destiny? Highborn or peasant, it makes no difference. At least David hadn't had her flogged or killed, as another king might have done. But now that I had heard the tale of her life in her own words, my heart ached for her.

You cannot right injustice by injustice.

He came to believe that horses lived with a world of fear, and when you grasped that, you had a clear idea how to be with

What did they want from him, these people? The girl's face was scrunched up like she had some kind of ague. Anyone think she was the one been sold away from her home and kin.

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

In Chicago a social worker discovered that at the same time budgets were cut for the provision of milk to children, large dogs at the animal shelter were allotted more money for meals than a man on relief.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I say that we are woundWith mercy round and roundAs if with air.

Zullen we even medelijden met onszelf hebben?' vroeg hij?

O, lieve, lieve mensen, ik houd van u, en ik omhels u allen hartstochtelijk, ondanks de geduchte afstand. Laten we elkaar niet haten, maar, integendeel, elkaar liefhebben, gezamenlijk op de Dood wachten, en het ons in de tussentijd aan niets laten ontbreken.