Quotes About Compassion

One of our group said that a lot of people in church spend a lot of time correcting each other these days, but in order to correct another person in love, you really have to know that person. Only then, she told us, can you practice the kind of community that the Didache teaches.

No matter the reason, the people didn't turn on Jesus because they were Jews. They turned on Jesus because they were human.

BELIZE: Louis, I'd even pray for you.      He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe . . . A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at least. Isn't that what the Kaddish asks for?

And if he had returned mutilated, ugly, full of infection and horror, she would still have loved him; fed by pity, by a sharing of pain, she would love him even more, and even more, and she would never, never have prayed to God, please let him die if he can't return to me whole and healthy and able to live a normal life . . . If he had died, she would have buried her heart with him.      So what the fuck is the matter with me?

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

Andujar, Joaquin, 183 Anheuser-Busch, 181–82 Animal Rescue

remembering what she said about love trying to live with what I can't rise above.

But you have learn to let go, my mother said, 'That's part of it, isn't it?' 'Part of what?' Part of what it means to love someone. To really love someone. If you love someone you just don't see them as an extension of yourself. You don't just love them for what's in it for you.' 'Love means knowing when to let go,' she told me.

Human Remains Pouch. We don't call them body bags and they are not black, like the movies. This one was white with a long black zip.

The paradox is that when you can get into right versus wrong bickering in personal relationships -- even if you believe you have won -- you have lost.

Para las personas que pasan sus vidas ayudando a la gente, el reto es valorar Igualmente sus propias necesidades para renovarse a sí mismas y poder servir a los otros con mayor eficacia

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Save one life, you save the world.

If I am not for myself, who will be? But if i am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Treat others as you would like to be treated

Kuulin radiosta, äiti sanoi, että hän ei koskaan elänyt yhdessä miesten kanssa. Pelkästään naisten. Niin, sanoin minä. Niin se kai oli. Onko sillä väliä? äiti kysyi. Ei, sanoin, se ei kuulu meille. Mahtoiko hänellä olla siitä jotain iloa? äiti sanoi. Toivotaan niin, sanoin. Ihminen saa niin kauhean harvoin mitään iloa rakkaudesta, äiti sanoi.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?