Quotes About Compassion

The Harold Herald, alive with news of the war, even printed an extra edition the next day, and among the news of the front page, the girls discovered that Minister Fairweller had been wounded. Clover, so tenderhearted, cried. "Oh,he's probably all right," said Bramble. "It would take a lot to kill him. Like garlic and a stake through the heart." Clover still cried. That was Clover for you.

You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Wait - Miss Bramble-" "Don't call me that!" said Azalea. Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said.

Be the difference in someone's life that you know you can make.

I do love you, Jesse, so much. And once it worried me, that I could love a Yankee so thoroughly, so desperately, so completely. But a friend told me something once. He said that I don't love a Yankee, I love a man. And I do, Jesse, I love you. And the color that you wear can't change the man that you are. I love that man.

Oh, Daniel!" she whispered softly. "I am so sorry!" He pressed his finger to her lips. "Hush. I am not, Callie." His finger rimmed her lips. "I've a son to raise, a daughter to see. Oh, Callie!

Colonel, it seems to me that beneath the fabric, be it blue or gray, men do seem to be very much alike. I found nothing alarming about the act at all, and my dear Colonel, I must say, I hardly found you … dangerous.

Christa, she was fine and sweet and gentle, and yes, I loved her, and dear God, yes, I'm sorry the war killed her, just as I'm sorry the war killed so many! But Christa, I have never wished that you were anyone but you, and I have prayed only that our child might survive. If you haven't read my heart, Christa, then you are a stupid, stupid Reb as well!

Let's hope that very soon it won't matter whether we're red, black, tan, yellow, white…male or female. Or whether we believe in the White Buffalo Woman, the teachings of Buddha, Allah or God.

A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.

Come here, Cal," she says real gentle, and I come close. Read me something." I open up the book I'm holding, a new one brought this very day. Just chicken scratch, I used to figure, but now I see what's truly there, and I read a little out. That's gift enough," she says, and smiles so big, it makes me smile right back.

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

We're called to speak to people to whom we often don't feel like speaking; to refrain from surrounding ourselves with people "just like us," whose thoughts, ideas, and actions we can more or less manage and control; to share not just with the poor, but with the rich, the mediocre, the irritating, the Republicans, the Democrats, because we never know who the poor are. We never know whose heart is hemorrhaging. We never know who needs a kind work, a smile, a helping hand.

There is something about burying a friend that makes you want to declare what is most important to you in life, and if you're fortunate, that is true love.

Our hearts are every bit as malleable as stardust turned to gold. Loving one another polishes them.

Although our love was not quite devine the loss of it made me devine with empathy for you.

There are few things love does not understand, how to love you is not one of them.

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer." The cancer.

Unconditional love requires us to accept Billy for exactly who he is. He cannot be different at this present moment. He is perfectly normal based on his history.

Before you judge another remind yourself you don't know their life history to understand why they behave as they do!

But I was learning forgiveness didn't have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.