Quotes About Compassion

Yeah," Swordtail said fervently. "HiveWings don't care about anyone but themselves." Cricket flinched, and Blue frowned at Swordtail. "That's really unfair, Swordtail. You don't know what's going on in their hearts. The only HiveWing you know well is Cricket, and she cares a lot.

It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her, being extremely noisy and distracting

There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is.

He turned toward Fathom with his wings spread wide, as if looking for reassurance, and found Fathom pointing the soul reader at him.

but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

He is not a 'super-stealth' or a 'fighting evil' kind of dragon. He is a 'but do the bad guys know about pandas because then I bet they wouldn't be evil anymore' kind of dragon." "Well, but," Sky protested, "I mean … pandas! Have you SEEN pandas?

Blue couldn't imagine that was true. Blue cared about all of them: every dragon he'd ever spoken to and all the ones he'd never seen. There were dragons out there eating blueberries and dragons laughing at clumsy tiger cubs and dragons learning to dance and dragons crying as though their hearts would break over missing homework. He'd been all of them in some way, and he couldn't just toss them into the talons of these angry, vengeful dragons and fly off.

I could fix them. I could do it right now … I could enchant that bandage so when she takes it off, she could see for the first time in her life.

No," Winter grumbled. "Thank you," Qibli said, entirely too sincerely for Winter. "Well," Winter said, "I would have done the same thing for anyone, you know." "I know," Qibli said. "I like that about you.

But this will never happen again, he vowed. If I ever find someone else to care about, I will not let my mission come first. I will break any order. I'll endanger my own tribe if I have to. I will make up for this somehow. Someday.

Sundew saw Cricket flinch and Blue gently rest his tail on hers.

All the violence, fear, and suffering That exists in the world Comes from grasping at self.

May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

An angel once found a demon broken and nearly dead. The angel held out his arm to help the demond. The demond looked at the angel and asked 'Why would you save an evil demond like me?' The angel answered, 'Because without you there is no me.

It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

Tell the kind truth.

Human beings need to be needed, and they need to be reminded of this pretty much every day. They need to know that they are helping others, not merely serving themselves.

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list . Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What? Mooch: Empathy and compassion.

Well, damme, William, I am sorry: I am very sorry, indeed I am. But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.

If men were to consider what they were at - if if they were to look around them, and reflect upon the cost of life in a universe where prisons, brothels, madhouses, and regiments of men armed and trained to kill other men are so very common - why, I doubt we should see many of these poor mewling little larval victims, so often a present misery to their parents and a future menace to their kind.

My dear Miss Lamb,' he cried, taking her free hand, 'I hope I see you well. Quite well?' he said earnestly, meaning 'not too much raped?

He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.

man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have – for what they are – are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.