Quotes About Compassion

Even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

He plants himself right there in front of Craig's mother and says, "You need to love him. I don't care who you thought he was, or who you want him to be, you need to love him exactly as he is because your son is a remarkable human being. You have to understand that." And Craig's mother whispers back, "I know. I know.

Being a comfort is itself comforting. Having someone find a place on your shoulder and be able to rest.

I can't stand being mean. People playing games. I want to guard myself against it, but I make a shitty guard for my own heart. I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being dragons and became dragonslayers instead. Sometimes that's what it takes—the final battle. But it should take much, much less than that.

If act one in life is about finding yourself, then act two is about finding everyone else.

Love means never having to lose your limbs.

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

If I woke up in a different body every day--if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow--would you still love me?

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

How could this happen? some of our parents asked us near the end. We knew what they were really asking, and some of us found the grace to say, It was nothing you did.

On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that. I honestly believe that. I think we saw the way humanity works on that day, and while some of it was horrifying, so much of it was good.

Maybe Dana loved you for your pain. I loved you for everything.

I want to love. I want to love indiscriminately - people, places, and things. But not just those. I want to love verbs. Adjectives. I want to love beyond category. Because, in my heart, I know that's what I was born to do. And life? Life is just the time I have to figure out how to do it well.

Your Temporary Santa, He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

I said I hated life. You said you hated life. We decided to hate it together. We didn't know anything. Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

Esas clases de peleas nunca pueden ser ganadas, incluso si eres el victorioso, has herido a la otra persona, y tiene que haber alguna derrota asociada con eso.

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

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan)

I WILL BE A BETTER PERSON. I know it's hard to believe. From me. From the bitch who got pummeled with an orange tray. But I knew - I hadn't become the worst kind of person yeat. I had to believe that. [...] Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

If you want to be loved, be 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 we are to find it in ourselves.