Quotes About Compassion

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

Vera looked at me, and her eyes filled with tears. She does this sometimes, especially when I'm being hateful and difficult; she responds by having all the feelings I'm refusing to have. Now she reached over and took my hand, and we both began to cry.

Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century.

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

What good are laws if they're not human?

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

The purest magic is in the heart.....

Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

Taking love is easy—giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.

I'd have given you everything I had. If you'd needed more, I'd have found it, and given you that. It's the way I love. It's the only way I know how.

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. What's the point? You're the point, son. Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. You're the point.

Sometimes we hate her," Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. "But it's a hare based on love.

It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.

And not without sympathy, Aidan turned the shower on full cold and shoved his beloved brother under the heartless spray. Oh, the scream but peeled the skin off his face, and the curse that followed battered his ears. But Aidan held ground, dodged a fist when he had to, and clamping Shawn in a headlock, held him mercilessly under.

I'm not your father. He cupped a hand under her chin. He saw the tears brimming, and her valiant attempt to hold them off. And neither are you. My being there for you, taking some of the weight doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make you less, Sophie.

You're angry with me becuase you care about me. This water's too hot, she said when she tested it. No,it isn't.And I'm not angry with you at t'all. Murmuring to the gelding, he lay the heated flannel over the abscess. A bit with myself, maybe, but it's more satisfying to take it out on you.

We are people of the land, we are artists and craftsmen, storytellers, but we are also a world of laws. Most are not unlike the laws you know. To take a life, to take what is not yours or not given freely, to force another to lie with you, to neglect a child or animal. All of these acts cause harm, and our first law is to cause no harm.

While the bells rang and echoed, she sat near the edge of the water. Here was peace, she thought, and joy. She would never, never take either for granted. She would remember to give something back every day. Even if it was just a heel of bread for the gulls. She would tend what she planted. She would remember to be kind, and never forget to offer a helping hand.

I learned you must always accept love when it's offered, always give it when it's needed. There might not be a second chance. And I know, too, that until your heart's been broken, you never know the full beauty of love.

Feelings are feelings. I don't understand why people blame other people for what they feel.

If love isn't stronger than pride, it isn't love.