Quotes About Compassion

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you...

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Before judging a person you have to know the story of his life.

La lanterne des autres ne sert qu'à nous égarer.

Another, more basic reason is that even being able to know or define in the first place what hurts or helps other people often itself requires reference to certain moral standards and understandings of what is good and bad.

emotional stress of those around them, as Colette Baron-Reid pointed out in her book Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much (Harmony, 2013).

Dr. Mario Martinez teaches that love is toxic to a toxic person. And that there are only so many milligrams of love that a toxic person can take before they become mean or nasty.

Remember, they are born this way. Just as you didn't choose to be born as an empath, they didn't choose to be born with their personality. So the goal here isn't to judge them as evil or try to fix them. It is simply to avoid them, or at the very least, set up very healthy boundaries, and save yourself.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness

Christina Baker Kline

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance

There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)

he doesn't approve but will deal with it later, "is that what they're doing? Asking for handouts?" "They just want to be treated fairly," a kid in the back says. "But what does that mean? And where does it end?" another kid asks. As others join the conversation, Megan turns in her seat and squints at Molly, as if noticing her for the first time. "An Indian, huh. That's cool," she whispers. "Like Molly Molasses, right?

Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention.

Mrs. Scatcherd says we should make a clean slate," I say. "Let go of the past." "I can let go of the past, no problem." He picks up the wool blanket that has fallen to the floor and tucks it around the lump of Carmine's body, covering the parts that are exposed. "But I don't want to forget everything.

It is a pitiful kind of childhood, to know that no one loves you or is taking care of you, to always be on the outside looking in.

Fanny gives me a long hug. She holds my face in her small cold hands. "You are a good girl, Niamh," she says. "Don't let anybody tell you different.

Maisie sensed it first. She wouldn't stop crying. Since she was a month old, when our mother got sick,