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Quotes About Compassion

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 borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.
~ Daniel Keyes
Ama ben zekan?n tek ba??na hiçbir anlam ta??mad???n? öÄŸrendim. Burada, sizin üniversitenizde zeka, eÄŸitim ve bilgi büyük idoller haline gelmiÅŸ. Ama ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, hepinizin atlad??? bir ÅŸey var: Sevgi ve ÅŸefkat eli deÄŸmeyen zeka ve eÄŸitim beÅŸ para etmez.
~ Daniel Keyes
Existem muitas pessoas que darão dinheiro ou bens materiais, mas poucas que darão tempo e atenção.
~ Daniel Keyes
I've got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them.
~ Daniel Keyes
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. That's what I mean.' His voice grew harsh, and he pointed to an empty baby bottle on the bookshelf across the room.
~ Daniel Keyes
I put Algernon's body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn't going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It's foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.
~ Daniel Keyes
Its getting chilly out but I still put flowers on Algernons grave.
~ Daniel Keyes
You see that bottle?" I told him I had wondered about it when we came into his office. "Well, how many people do you know who are prepared to take a grown man into his arms and let him nurse with the bottle? And take the chance of having the patient urinate or defecate all over him? You look surprised. You can't understand it, can you, from way up there in your research ivory tower? What do you know about being shut out from every human experience as our patients have been?
~ Daniel Keyes
As the boy's vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he did not understand. I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile – the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him.
~ Daniel Keyes
L'intelligenza e l'educazione che non siano temperate dall'affetto umano non valgono nulla.
~ Daniel Keyes
Ce ciudat este faptul c? niÈ™te oameni cu sentimente oneste de sensibilitate, care nu s-ar lua niciodat? de un om n?scut f?r? mâini, picioare sau ochi, nu se dau înapoi de la maltratarea unui om slab de minte.. Chiar È™i un om slab de minte vrea s? fie asemeni celorlalÈ›i oameni. Un copil mic poate s? nu È™tie cum s? se hr?neasc? singur sau ce s? m?nânce, dar È™tie c?-i este foame..
~ Daniel Keyes
Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.
~ Daniel Keyes
I've got to stop this childish worrying about myself — my past and my future. Let me give something of myself to others.
~ Daniel Keyes
How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.
~ Daniel Keyes
This day was good for me. I've got to stop this childish worrying about myself—my past and my future. Let me give something of myself to others. I've got to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence.
~ Daniel Keyes
Ma io so adesso che voi tutti avete trascurato una cosa: l'intelligenza e l'educazione che non siano temperate dall'affetto umano non valgono nulla.
~ Daniel Keyes
Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. PPS. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the back yard.
~ Daniel Keyes
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. That's what I mean.
~ Daniel Keyes
Sappiamo che un mondo senza dolore è un mondo senza sentimento... ma un mondo senza sentimento è un mondo senza dolore.
~ Daniel Keyes
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.
~ Daniel Keyes
Ele comete o mesmo erro que os outros quando olham para uma pessoa de mente débil e riem porque não entendem que existem sentimentos humanos envolvidos
~ Daniel Keyes
Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.
~ Daniel Keyes
Work is not about doing what you want to do; work is about serving others.
~ Daniel Lapin
We cannot do a greater good to another human being than to accord him our naked awareness, devoid of all plan.
~ Daniel Odier