Quotes About Compassion

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.

Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.

A heart of stone can still be broken.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn't always being weak. Maybe it was the shame that was the problem.

You didn't get what you deserved, but you don't have to live inside that one story forever. No one's heart has to remain stone.

If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least.

He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly.

Just because I am bitter about romance doesn't mean everyone else needs to be.

It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

Cardan stands, too. 'Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here's one. Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn't always being weak.

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us," Vivi said, "than to be mad at the people who deserve it.

I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here's one. Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.

So long as you're begging, he doesn't mind a bit.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.

Happiness isn't something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it's medicine. I don't need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don't need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.