Quotes About Compassion

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves

need for a "speaker for the dead" and for the living.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—" "You beat them." For

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way the love themselves.

It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs.

Y todo se reduce a esto: en el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo. Y entonces, en ese preciso momento, cuando le quiero...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance.

I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela,' he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. 'Telling the truth makes you cry.

Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena. Incluso el más malvado de entre los hombres, si conoces su intimidad, tiene algún acto generoso que le redime de sus pecados, aunque sólo sea un poco generoso.

think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Power comes only by persuasion; by love and service. It comes from trying and learning.

In wartime, commanders have always had to learn the concept of "acceptable losses." But those who keep their humanity never really accept the idea of acceptability

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others

Any animal is willing to kill in order to save itself.' 'Any animal is willing to kill the Other,' said Ender. 'But the higher beings include more and more living things within their self-story, until at last there is no Other. Until the needs of others are more important than any private desires. The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

If you can understand why he's biting and remove the conditions that make him bite, sometimes that can solve the problem as well. The dog isn't dead. He isn't even your enemy.

I'll carry you,' said Ender, 'I'll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time they can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—

He's a pig," said Shen. Ender shrugged. "On the whole, pigs aren't so bad.

Ezekiel wanted to cry and he wanted to scream. Cry because he couldn't believe how painful all of this must have been, how sad and lonely Beth must have been. And scream because he never had a clue about the deep pain in Beth's life.

Nuestra misión es salvar el mundo, no curar corazones heridos. Eres demasiado compasivo.