Quotes About Compassion

And you can cry all you want, honey, but just let me know ahead of time so I can change your margarita to a double.

He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.

As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were. But instead of firing, the pilot saluted him. After the war, Halloran and that pilot, Isamu Kashiide, became dear friends.

At a Japanese POW camp, this dead American was found near war's end, still standing, at a sink at which he was trying to drink. American soldiers and guerrillas went behind enemy lines to rescue the men at this camp, but they were too late. They found the bodies of 150 POWs, starved to death.

As he walked over the bridge, Louie glanced back. Some of the guards and camp officials stood in the compound, watching them go. A few of the sickest POWs remained behind, awaiting transport the next day. Fitzgerald stayed with them, unwilling to leave until the last of his men was liberated.*

2 As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were. But instead of firing, the pilot saluted him. After the war, Halloran and that pilot, Isamu Kashiide, became dear friends.

Everyone thinks we found this broken down horse and fixed him. But he fixed us. Every one of us.

I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they sacrificed, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book is dedicated. Laura Hillenbrand May 2010

If Red breaks that leg again," Howard said soberly, "it will cripple him for life." Alexander told him that maybe it was better to break a man's leg than his heart.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

All that is good, we are. Love and compassion radiate from our very being; we need only remember.

Allow your heart to overflow with gratitude, and so, fill the world with Love.

Be brave, be kind, be honest, be true— remember these things are alive within you.

To all the things of earth and sky, give Love.

What do I carry wherever I go What will spring up from the seeds that I sow What can I safeguard, create, and release And offer each soul that I chance upon— peace.

Maybe he was worried that I would get thinner and thinner, until I became as unfindable as my mother, and I felt a stab of compassion for him, imagining my father alone in this house with the white shadows of his two invisible women.

came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.

If Flynn's as you say, the boy—Simon, you called him?—Simon should be all too happy to come away with us. I've no ill will toward him." "You might remember Simon's the one who gave you a great clout on the head," she said. David waved it away. "And why shouldn't he? He likely thought I was about to maul your unconscious person.

No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.