Quotes About Compassion

Our grief is not a cry for war.

It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.

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

Last week in an airport, a place I so often am, I noticed that the clerk who was helping me didn't ask me if I wanted a wheelchair, as I guess age guidelines required her to do. She just smiled and said she could see I didn't need one. On my return, another airline clerk looked only at her computer and so ordered a wheelchair, complete with attendant, that might have been needed somewhere else. To one, I was an individual human being. To the other, I was a group.

You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.

But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

I told them how our nurses and Father's assistant were africans. "They don't boil missionaries," I told them, my face red with anger. "They save lives and they are a whole lot smarter than the stupid, silly girls who drew that pictures.

But Chu Ju," Han Na said to me, and took my hand in hers, "do not think that the land is payment for caring for me. There can be no payment for that. Where there was your love, there is only my love.

You are as good-hearted as I believed," the woman said, "but you are foolish as well to take such a thing on yourself. Yet what kindhearted person does not have some foolishness about him.

when my choices are fueled by self-focused need, my best work is seldom done.

Any calling to better the world no matter how small is the highest.

Be good, at least to yourself.

Don 't put mediocrity, insensitivity and tradition before sound reason and compassion.

Life isn't about getting what you want, it is about giving what you have.

The surest way to make the world a better place for everyone is making everyone better for the world.

We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

We should only be concerned with being better for the world, not the world being better for us because the former is the way to achieving the latter and the world is already best for us.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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