Quotes About Compassion

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.

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

To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own—such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment.

The peculiar institution made Cora into a maker of lists as well. In her inventory of loss, people were not reduced to sums, but multiplied by their kindnesses.

At the end of the day when she propped him up and told him he could do it, he puzzled over these alien things she offered him. Kindness and faith, he didn't know which box to put them in.

All I truly know is that we rise and fall as one, one colored family living next door to one white family. We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together." —

To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own—such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment. If your eyes met, both parties looked away. But this man did not. He nodded before passersby took him from

No matter that Mr. Marconi had told him he didn't care, no matter that Elwood had never said a word to his friends when they stole in his presence. It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.

We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together." —

But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. Mabel

Puedes cambiar la ley, pero no puedes cambiar a la gente ni la manera en la que se tratan unos a otros

When trafficking in cadavers, it helped to be immune to sentimentality.

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

No one really cares about other people when you get down to it—their own struggles are too close up.

agape as a divine love operating in the heart of man. A selfless love, an incandescent love, the highest there

Be kind to everybody. Make art. Fight the power.

Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.

Brother Mingo made some good points, Lander said. We can't save everyone. But that doesn't mean we can't try. Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing's going to grow in this mean cold, but we can still have flowers.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

Rami, the poet, the Sufi, said something that I will never forget: Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there." We were right and we were wrong and we met in a field. We realized that we wanted to kill each other to achieve the same thing, peace and security. Imagine that, what an irony, it's crazy.

anything which creates emotional ties between human beings inevitably counteracts war. What had to be sought was a community of feeling, and a mythology of the instincts.