Quotes About Compassion

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt -A

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

Love is so painful, how could you wish it on anybody?

Not getting what you want can make you curel.

The way she includes me, the way she takes this total stranger and makes her feel a part of this world, makes me care about her even more. It's one thing to be love-worthy when you are interacting with your boyfriend; it's another when you act the same way with a girl you don't know -A

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender -A

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

It allows me to understand the strength it takes not just for A to be human, but for all of us to be human, if we want to be important not just to friends, but to strangers.

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.

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.

She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.

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

Love is so painful, how could you ever with it on anybody?

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.

Bycie w odpowiednim miejscu w odpowiednim czasie i wsparcie t? obecno?ci? drugiego cz?owieka to najlepsze, co mo?emy robi? dla siebie nawzajem.

O propósito do amor não é ser a solução, a resposta ou a cura para a outra pessoa. O propósito do amor é ajudar o outro a encontrar o que eles precisam, da maneira que você puder.

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 service to ourselves.

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separated from a thing and still care about it.

We know it is sometimes hard to receive someone's truth. Not as hard as the telling, but still hard if you care about how your response will be taken.

Our feelings of sympathy do not embrace all of humanity in equal measure. Some human beings matter to us. We care intensely about their well-being. Others do not matter very much, and still others do not matter at all. This is a hard saying, and may be difficult to accept but it is obviously and undeniably true.

Human isn't a scientific concept at all. It's a folk-concept that means, roughly, one of us. As Rorty insightfully observes, such people "are morally offended Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by the suggestion that they treat people whom they do not think of as human as if they were human.

even the most zealous vegans can weed their garden and wipe out untold millions of germs with disinfectants ("green" ones, of course) without suffering a single pang of guilt.

the closer we judge a creature is to us on the hierarchy, the more inclined we are to grant it moral standing.