Quotes About Compassion

Greetings cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

it's a good friend who wakes a friend from her dream

Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody. She nodded several times and brought a napkin to her damp cheeks. That's true, she said. Very true. But at the same time, can't you always do more?

I'm a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.)

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others.

Please. Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home—if you, if we, get back to our respective homes—if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, "hold your judgment. If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you.

He had an absolute empathy for everybody, Magid. And it was an unbelievable pain in the arse.

My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

My father had never liked tears. He thought a man never cried for others, only for himself. And if he did, he was a coward and deserved no pity.

Keista, kaip mes smerkiame kitus, užmirš? vargan? savo b?t?, kol j? netenkame, kai juos iš m?s? atima mirtis. Atima, nes jie niekada mums nepriklaus?...

Where there is love there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi

People put up walls. Not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." —Socrates

It's not about who hurt you and broke you down. It's about who was always there and made you smile again." —Unknown

Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You

I must tell you—because you mightn't come back, she whispered. You must know what—what I think of your goodness—of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful. It was deep in my heart. Even now—if I were other than I am—I couldn't tell you. But I'm nothing—only a rustler's girl—nameless—infamous. You've saved me—

Oh, Glenn!--forgive--me! she faltered. I was only--talking. What do I know? Oh, I am blind--blind and little!

Unless you begin to control your temper, to forget yourself, to kill your wild impulses, to be kind, to learn what love is--you'll never last!...

Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. 'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Când iubeÈ™ti pe cineva îi simÈ›i durerea.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Give me your pain, love,' he said holding her against the steady beat of his heart. 'Let me take it for you.