Quotes About Compassion

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.

Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we'd lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

You can't mind these things, you just can't, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.

You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love.

Come on in, I said again, and he came on in and I hugged him. I felt his arms, warm through the linen. Suddenly there was a reason to leave the house and see other humans, because some of them were good.

Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can't mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you, as long as truly, in the real world, you are both leaving at exactly the same time.

This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.

Why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?

It's one thing to forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose

Goodby Miss Kinnian and dr Strauss and evrybody ... P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard

P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did. It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.