Quotes About Compassion

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name. Anyway

No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.

La única palabra que describe la bondad es bondad, y no es bastante.

Son, you can do more good at Yamacraw than you could ever do in the Peace Corps. And you would be helping Americans, Pat. And I, for one, think it's very important to help Americans.

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves.

let them feel the hurt and sorrow of history.

Because I'm an American, I let her die by degrees, isolated and abandoned by her family. She often asks me to murder her as an act of kindness and charity. I barely have the courage to visit her.

had the heart of a socialist and the soul of a missionary

a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

the world needs more roses far more than it needs more basketball players.

the sadness in her voice touched a deep place within me.

through her

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I want them to take from you the knowledge of how to be the gentlest, the most perfect brother.                                         Savannah

A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.

Be happy for those who are happy, be compassionate toward those who are unhappy, be delighted for those who are virtuous, and be indifferent toward the wicked.

La amistad, la compasión y la alegría clarifican y tranquilizan la mente. Deben practicarse tanto en la felicidad como en la desgracia, tanto con quienes nos ayudan como con aquellos que nos perjudican.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear.

But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

Coren's arms tightened around the child. "It is Norrel's son—it is not an animal.