Quotes About Compassion

In your close relationships, urgency is your enemy, and breath is your friend.

Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.

Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is the most absolute of all.

Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine - they are!

The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.

May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.

Vegans plant goodwill.

Angels have no philosophy but love.

Hate less, live longer.

Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us.

Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

When you help an animal, do your absolute best to make sure you don't harm it at the same time, and Never walk past a problem with an animal—fix it.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

When bad things happened to good people, or when innocent animals experienced human cruelty, it shook Steve to the core. His strong feelings demanded deep spiritual answers, and he searched for them all his life.

The emotional roller coaster of rescue work never seemed to end. I named my facility "Cougar Country" to highlight my focus, but I found myself called to help many different animals--in veterinarians' offices, in the field, in classrooms and courtrooms. Somehow I kept it all together, and ran Westates Flagman, too. My day had forty-eight hours. It helped that I had no social life.

God bless you, Stevo. I love you, mate.

Using the satellite phone connection, I finally reached Croc One. The captain, Kris, was in tears. I finally tracked down John Stainton, and he assured me that he hadn't left Steve's side. "I've got a charter plane coming," John said. "I'll get him home, Terri.