Quotes About Compassion

The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.

In a lot of ways, this is a book about all the ways that people life you up and take care of you.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

the suppression of self-interested emotion actually inhibits true connection. Peace, love, and compassion can create social disharmony when worn like masks to cover unresolved anger, fear, sadness, and depression.

Tu ne tenais pas de discours grandiloquents sur la fraternité, mais tu portais toujours une attention aux obscurs, aux vulnérables, pas uniquement parce que toi-même tu te rangeais parmi ceux-là, mais parce que les puissants pleins de certitude, ceux qui veulent à tout prix attirer la lumière sur eux, te faisaient craindre que ce monde ne devienne vraiment irrespirable.

unless you've walked in another person's skin, you don't know what he's put up with, what he's gone through

He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug wanted when she was feeling low, a good cup of tea, and it always seemed to brace her right up.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.

We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

I know I was wrong. If i could go back and do it over, I would. I wish I could undo it all." I know that." Grandma reached over and put a twisted hand on hers. "'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.' Isaiah one eighteen." I've done terrible things." Don't make no difference. You can't out-sin the cross.

I didn't really need a champion, though--a man who'd slay dragons on my behalf. If I ran into any dragon that needed slaying, I'd take care of it. Although, as a vet tech, I might instead choose to find the appropriate anti-anxiety med to calm the creature without permanently harming it.

So sad," Victor said, "the things people will do to each other." Dan sat back against the seat cushion and let out a sharp breath.

Maybe kindness can get to be a habit for a person. Like a lot of other things.

It's not hard to care about people who are like you...Your own family, and people like them. But...we have to always make the extra effort with people who aren't like us. To care about them and listen to them, especially if they'e different from us. Because that's one of the things that makes us human. It's something we can do that other animals can't.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked. Salva shook his head. "Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking

Fight hard and fight well. But know that a quest for justice without wisdom and compassion can all too easily become cruelty.

One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that.

There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.

Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.