Quotes About Compassion

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

There is nothing like having a doctor who really cares about you—who can speed up the inhuman pace of medical time, which usually leaves patients begging to hear their test results, waiting too many days for an appointment, at a loss until the conveyor belt brings along the next hurried intervention. 247, Marjorie Williams, A Matter of Life and Death.

There are plenty of bad people in the world," he said. "Too many to count. But there are good people, too.

There's no room in a small town for grudges.

In the weeks after the flood, the Humane Society of the United States organized the biggest animal rescue in history. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the country came to New Orleans. They broke into boarded-up houses, plucked dogs and cats from rooftops and trees, and even rescued pigs and goats. Many animals were reunited with their owners. Others were sent to shelters across America to be adopted by new families.

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

Never speak like that. You must never let hatred take over! Then you are no better than Festus! And hatred like that will destroy you.

There is goodness in the world, Marcus, and kindness. You cannot forget that." Goodness? Kindness?

Why would the queen greet Winter, a mutineer, with open arms?

Magellan found himself in a difficult position. He could not bring himself to condemn a priest—even a disloyal priest—to death.

executioner placed the noose around the condemned man's neck, Elizabeth intervened to spare him.

Instead of worrying about evil, worry about losing the power to do good!

Instead of worrying about the question of suffering in the world, spend your time alleviating it!

Allah does not always open Its Jamal. The Murid's assignment is to unite the Jalal and the Jamal. These two are projected from, and absorbed back into, the black nothingness called Allah's Kamal - a state of invisible, neuter, annihilation. Jalal is Allah's power, force and strength. It often manifests as trials and tests for the Murid. Jamal is Allah's sweetness, compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. Kamal is the whispered breath of nonexistence.

surest remedy for the male disease of self-contempt is the love of a sensible woman.

Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-white ankle bones where her feet used to be. I had never seen the whiteness of bones that are freshly exposed like that.

As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. "He tried to sit up," Martz said. "I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him.

The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.

A healthy child protests when they are mistreated.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.