Quotes About Compassion

do it because the victim deserves a cop who will work the case instead of one who is more intent on figuring out how some poor bastard who got shot four times in the back, and got dumped on the jurisdictional line, can be written off as a suicide.

Maybe so, but it comes down to this: Do you want the guard to live with the guilt of killing a man? Or do you want to give him a chance to make peace with it?

Take care. For yourself, for those you have carried, for the universe, for your deer, for your heart, for your angels, for those you love. There has never been a more selfless selfish act. Take care.

Most of all, you need moral courage because nursing is about the pursuit of justice. It requires you stand up to bullies, to do things that are right but difficult, and to speak your mind even when you are afraid.

grief is not like clinical depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety, which can be diagnosed and treated. The grieving need someone to say "I see you, I hear you, I understand you are hurting and you can tell me more.

I've learned that even people with mental illness have stigmas about mental illness.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. It may not seem so, but it is. Heartbreak is healing on a planetary level. That is why hearts are breaking. So, lead with your hearts both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you lead with your hearts. None of you acknowledge yourselves enough for this. And where you lead with your hearts, you the lead the way for others to open their hearts.

When you learn to nurture and love yourself as you would another When you give yourself that attention Things change very fast Things move in you

The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.

She smiled at him, not knowing how to say - you saved me. Instead, she said, "You must get well." Book 2, p188

If you weren't fine, I wouldn't even bother with you.

Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

With what tragic pathos do all men regard The child grown old whose heart cries!

The kindest souls are ever Those who sin and suffer most, And who thoughtfully endeavor To forget whereof men boast.

He who strives for happiness is a fool. The wise man makes happiness for another.

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.