Quotes About Compassion

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Two white teenagers, one of them an Eagle Scout, had been looking forward to being part of the motorcade. Upset at the cancellation, they drove into black neighborhoods on a motorcycle carrying a Confederate flag. When they came upon two black boys on bicycles, one of the white youths fired his pistol at thirteen-year-old Virgil Ware and killed him.

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

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

But liking someone whose species you dislike is something--worth more than currency on a chit.

There's gotta be kindness after pain. Forgiveness.

That is, if I understand God's abounding love and grasp that God forgives me even though I don't deserve it, the realization produces one powerful result: I forgive others. On every level and no matter how superficially or deeply I was hurt.

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.

forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about.

Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

If men ever got periods, believe me, you'd all be in a ball on the ground from cramps.

She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby's flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.

bring back our missing hearts.

I'm not saying there aren't bad mothers, she says. Just that you don't always know. What makes them do something, or not do something. Most of us, we're trying our best.

the right side of her heart had swollen, as if it had had too much to hold.

Izzy, sit up straight," she would say at the dinner table, thinking: Scoliosis. Cerebral palsy. "Izzy, calm down." Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD,