Quotes About Compassion

When you feel sorry for yourself, that you are the bearer of this terrible news. Remember that you had the ultimate privilege. True love." I watched Jay tear up, and

He was a sensitive man and many people had caused him anguish.

Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don't like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you've got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you're a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you're at it.

The world had little patience or concern for innocence.

When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier. —DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

nice to her. It had cost her quite a lot to push the door open. But

My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 'Why?' 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

To look into the eye of a horse is to see a reflection of yourself that you might've forgotten. No grief was big enough not to be washed clean in your horse's eye.

There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

With people dying outside on the streets of Dushanbe, studying marriage rituals did sound exotic—if not irrelevant.

we are all waiting for the luminous hands that will reach for us in the night, the eyes that will witness our pain, the voice that will whisper the possibility of a different truth.

Here's to looking every new mother in the eye, not just smiling at the baby, and asking her "How are YOU?" Here's to listening for her answer.