Quotes About Compassion

I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.

So much hate to go around, it's hard not to hate back. Much harder than learning to fight back.

Die Liebe allein versteht das Geheimnis, andere zu beschenken und dabei selbst reich zu werden.

After a while, after a long while. When Man stops believing that racial loyalty means the right to subjugate all other life. It will come, Ash, and humanity will be greater for it, allied to everything that lives, not an arrogant and fearful master.

to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

And here and there a human who saw the rightness of the proposition that Man could not, by mere self-assertion, be a special being; understanding that it was to his greater glory to take his place among the other things of life, as a simple thing of life, as a form of life that could lead and teach and be a friend, rather than a power-hungry creature that conquered and ruled and stood as one apart.

Lee replied: Tell your friends it is unworthy of them as women, especially Christian women, to cherish feelings of resentment against the North. Tell them that it grieves me inexpressibly to know that such a state of thing exists, and that I implore them to do their part to heal our country's wounds.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.

Sometimes you need to let things strike your heart and not your head.

Lori had broken that spell of despair, coming to him not begging but demanding he forgive himself.

tonight they all wished they could cut from their mind's configuration the part that knew—had always known, since infancy—that the great wound of the world was deepening, day on day, and they had no choice but feel the hurt as if it was their own, which of course in part it was.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

You leave marks on people, Gentle. That's a responsibility you can't just shrug off.

Forgive yourself,' Boone said. 'I did.

does a lost soul help lost souls?

You live in world, you collide with others. That's the way it is. We collide and sometimes someone gets hurt. They just wanted to steal a silly pair of boxers. It went wrong. For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much hold on to hate - you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

The First Rule of Mom: Love. The Second Rule of Mom: Feed your offspring.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

It doesn't help an animal to cry when it's in pain. But it does it.

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

To think of those Nickel nights where the only sounds were tears and insects, how you could sleep in a room crammed with sixty boys and still understand that you were the only person on earth. Everybody and nobody around at the same time. Here everybody was around and by some miracle you didn't want to wring their neck but give them a hug.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel