Quotes About Compassion

was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.

Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet

He that would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars," wrote William Blake.

Clara Claiborne Park

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.