Quotes About Compassion

So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.

Yes, he even romped like a normal kitten, despite his eyelessness. In short, he was eminently lovable … at least by all standards except the one with which most humans preoccupied themselves: his appearance. Finally,

They seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most—things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism—aren't just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they're real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or

Rhoda Palmateer, in loving memory. Rhoda's love saved the day for many hundreds of cats and kittens who otherwise would have languished on the streets or died in shelters.

Tragedies don't digest well in a small town.

Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.

What shall I give my children? who are poor,Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land.

Hateful things sometimes befall the hateful but the hateful are not rendered lovable thereby.

People who have no children can be hard: Attain a mail of ice and insolence:

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

A beteg ember mindig emberebb.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Why not everybody make friend, have fun, make help, be good?

Our true nationality is mankind.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim...

H. Jackson Brown Jr.