Quotes About Compassion

do something expressing your kindness to someone who will be totally surprised by your actions.

Replace all negativity with love.

make a special effort to have acceptance, gentleness, and kindness course through you to others.

give without expecting, and don't be victimized by the expectations of others.

Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never turn to goodwill.

Catch yourself when you have judgmental thoughts that could be considered harmful for yourself or others.

You might quiet the whole world for a second if you pray. And if you love, if you really love, our guns will wilt.

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class

Instead of believing that you know what's best for others, trust that they know what's best for themselves.

act without being concerned for your own ego.

Be humble. Never put yourself above others or see yourself as superior to anyone.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

But I've never spoken to a grave before. I don't know what to say. I don't know how. 'I'm so sorry,' I choke out, but that's as far as I get before I start crying. I feel bad that she's gone. I feel overwhelmed. And I feel guilt. Guilt that I've recovered. Guilt that I'm happy. Guilt that I ever thought she was the lucky one.

Anger is a dry riverbed. You should follow it only if it leads you to the springs of forgiveness.

Dont't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

No se puede pensar en lo que podría haber sido, Bryce—entonces, como si pudiera leer mi mente, añadió—: Y no es justo condenarlo por algo que no ha hecho.

And in the end I had to face the heart of the issue: How could I expect Adrienne to forgive me if I wasn't willing to even try to forgive my dad? I had no idea how to answer that. And so I ate ice cream.

To hold a mighty heart.

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don't know and have compassion for them at the same time?

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.