Quotes About Compassion

I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

hurt tends to drown out sorry.

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging preventative wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.

It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me.

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When you break someone's heart, you also break yours.

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense

I'm glad you're not mad at me, she says. I just want everything to be okay. I nod. If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -David Levithan (Every Day)