Quotes About Compassion

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...

If we don't want to self-destruct as a nation, black lives and blue lives mattering can't be a binary choice.

That's because unsolicited advice can be the match to the accelerant when all the other person needs is a hug.

All of us are in an ever-escalating arms race for who can be the most considerate.

Dear friends are throwing away their long-standing, deeply satisfying relationships in the current political climate, tired of seeing opposing posts, each too swept up in the movement to remember that there's someone they love on the other side.

My concern is that one can only be outraged for so long before becoming numb. Hate is not an effective long-term solution.

Rhetoric won't bring us a casserole after our knee surgery. Philosophy won't cheer us on as we make the case for a promotion. A viewpoint won't take us out to get sloppy drunk when we've been dumped.

Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

Mouse scurried to catch up with her, trying to match his strides to her long, fluid gait. She glanced down at his shabby garments and smudged face. "You'd best make certain nobody sees you with me," she reminded him. "You look like a street urchin." "I am a street urchin." He smirked up at her. "You were a street urchin.

Dana, I appreciate your concern for me, he said. But the truth is, you were hurt far more than I was. ... Let me do this one small thing to help atone for having been used as a weapon against you. Please.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

You can die unsaved, but you cannot die unloved.

Scapegoating Jews—or Communists, Poles, women, immigrants—was the refuge of the lazy, envious, and unimaginative. It made the world an ugly, hostile place to live in and did nothing to solve any actual problems.

The Todd sisters all had survived tragedy. They all had endured loss—parents, husbands, children, whole nations and noble causes, all had fallen away, lost to time. If they could not rise above their old resentments to help a sister in need, would it not be said that they had learned nothing from their own suffering?

They who had already crossed the river into the land of freedom were obliged to turn and offer a hand to those who were taking their first tentative steps upon the shore, and Elizabeth resolved to do exactly that.

Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you

It was that Michelle had the rare gift of taking people as they came.

When I die, I don't much care if anyone remembers my name. What matters to me is if people's lives are better, and our world is a kinder place because of the work I've done.

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up.

What I wanted to say is that abuse has no bias. It's not gender specific; it's just never okay.

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone....you can choose your family.

Mi sono accorta subito che Lawrence era attratto da me. L'importante non era questo, ma l'origine della sua attrazione. Si era innamorato delle due Laure, proprio della ragione per cui desideravo disperatamente morire. Quella che io consideravo come una maledizione, per lui era una cosa eccitante e onesta. Non rideva della mia sofferenza. L'accettava.

God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit of your struggle far outweighs the comfort you may experience from his rescue.

Apologies require vulnerability.