Quotes About Compassion

All the adult family was present except Beth, Paul's wife, who was sharing Keren's lonely vigil in the cottage over the hill. Despised by Keren in life, Beth could yet not bear the thought of allowing her to lie untended all through the summer evening.

Per me, Verity, l'inverno è finito. L'inverno e molto altro. Senza di te, non so che cosa ne sarebbe stato di me. Se ora l'inverno sta arrivando per te, pensi che potrei mai rifiutarmi di aiutarti solo perché vedo le cose in un altro modo? Non posso farmi piacere l'idea che tu sposi Blamey, ma questo è solo perché il tuo benessere mi sta immensamente a cuore. Questo però non significa che non ti aiuterò in ogni modo possibile.»

Un cattivo trattamento rende feroci anche i più dolci di noi.

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they say folks supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you this - it ain't always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak.

I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners

One always measures friendship by how they show up in bad weather.

El olvido generoso tiende su velo, los tullidos se apartan y los seres dolientes se desvanecen en el triste crepúsculo de la memoria.

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

The Boers were the most humane people where white men were concerned.

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

Since when does brotherhood draw crowds? Has compassion ever finished first? Does doubt ever really rouse the rabble? Only hatred has just what it takes.

I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.

Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do ?loveštva zelo nevarno ?ustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno osre?evanje ljudi.

the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart takes pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox, and simpleton, at Vienna, March 27, 1783.

Let mercy keep company with courage. Follow my advice in this: if in battle you win a man's surrender, then unless he has done you such grievance as amounts to heart's sorrow, accept his oath, and let him live.

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

Faire son chemin dans la vie n'est pas simple et tout ce qui peut marcher sans nuire à autrui est une bonne chose