Quotes About Compassion

Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.

If you forgive more than you can afford, you may find yourself impoverished in emotion afterward, with a lowered resistance to whatever happens after that.

When you have the ability and desire to help someone, the only moral choice is to act.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

But what was it with kids? Why was it that kids always had to dig whatever the wound, even deeper? Like bats radaring in to suck blood.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Contempt mates well with pity.

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.

If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.

If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.

It doesn't matter if you love the people society says you shouldn't love or do or don't have children with more than one of them; it doesn't matter if you have money, go to church, or obey the law; what matters is that you're not cruel or wasteful, that you don't keep the truth from those who need it, suppress someone's will or talent, take more than you need from nature, or fail to use your own talent and will.

Anybody can be with you when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.

a crucial purpose of birth families is to make sure we know, value, and even love people we don't agree with.

ANYBODY CAN BE WITH YOU when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up. Many

People before paper; stories before statistics.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.