Quotes About Compassion

No obstante, incluso cuando los médicos se hacían los amables, no solían controlar el alcance de su capacidad para serlo. Por muy gentilmente que se expresaran, más de un mensaje de los que se veían obligados a comunicar era cruel, y si no, una mentira y, por tanto, aún más cruel. Personalmente Shep no entendía por qué alguien querría ser médico.

Maybe the greatest favor a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

Elaine, I remember the first time I met you. You were so young, so scared. It nearly broke my heart to see you so.

I do not understand it, this fighting and killing/ and urge to conquer." His gaze turned downward then. I touched his arm, and he glanced at me, all the sorrow on this earth filling his eyes then. "I will never understand it.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?

Ketika kau mencintai seseorang, secara otomatis kau menerima segala sesuatu tentang dirinya. Hal-hal yang menjadikan dirinya apa adanya, itulah yang mebuatmu mencintainya. (David Koster - Haunted (Teratu))

we learned that girls are much more likely to seek help for a suffering friend if they can count on adults to respect their tribal loyalties.

Girls will often set aside their own wishes to help a needy friend.

In good marriages, partners can help their children appreciate what they should and shouldn't take personally in the other parent's behavior. My husband has told our daughters that I've been clean crazy for as long as he's known me and that he stopped taking it personally years ago.

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Wer ein Menschenleben rettet, handelt, als würde er die ganze Welt retten.

Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while," Calista told me. "Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.

Trying hard and being a good person didn't always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf.

At least I wasn't Major Disaster. That was Tommy's mom.

And is there a difference, I wonder, watching the ease with which T.J. settles back into her reading, between the happiness of being happy and the happiness of being happy because you think someone might be less happy than you?

He understood that being of service to others takes you out of the smallness of your own issues and into the bigger realm of the heart.

The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.

It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

softly, "with the little ones. Make it fair." Meg was about to complain but then she took

That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.