Quotes About Compassion

To my mind, reaching out, reaching for one another doesn't make what happened to those girls less of a tragedy, or make anyone less heartsick for them and their families. But point taken.You don't want me to listen.You don't want me to hold your hand. So that makes the need to do those things about me, not you.

CiCi Lennon lived life by her own rules. 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.

If you look for it, you can find something good about anybody.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.

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

For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

No matter how bad things are, and sometimes they were bad in our house, you want your mother to be there, to love you. And when she doesn't, you feel . . . less.

give her a ride.

You'd understand, better than anyone, what it's like to lose a father when you need one so badly.

Compassion - she was allowed to feel compassion, but not anger.

Being loved is easy. It's the loving that's difficult.

moods." "I can do that." "I'll let you go. Maybe if you see the lady—Naomi . . . If you see her, you could tell her I'm sorry about the trouble." "I'll do that. You take it easy." "It's the best way to take it." Chip smiled a little, then climbed into his truck. Since it was close, and he was running a bit late now, Xander got into his own truck and drove

The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 

Everybody's mean sometimes. That's because our flesh is weak and we're loaded with sin.

Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He

If you can be pretty and smart and kind, well, that's what makes a real princess.

I'm the one who has to watch you worry and struggle. Do you know what that does to me?

a nurse, since you're staying awake

knew she gave him pain. But he

Prejudice and fear are never clear-sighted.

you repay kindness with kindness, then there's more of it.

Sympathy covered Eden's face as she nodded.

Power," Mia told Nell, "carries with it responsibility, a respect for tradition. It must be tempered with compassion, hopefully intelligence, and an understanding of human flaws. It is never to be used carelessly, though there is room for humor. Above all, it must never be used to harm.

six, and by then, according to the doctor, she'd be covered with the itchy rash that was now confined to her belly and chest. It was going around, the pediatrician had said. It would run its course. Easy for him to say, Spence thought. It wasn't his daughter whose eyes were teary. It wasn't his baby with a hundred-and-one-degree