Quotes About Compassion

maybe even in the fires of Hell there might be an angel walking around with a bucket of cool water and a dipper.

And, Jake, there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?" Gus

that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

I won't try to argue you out of this pit you've climbed into, Cork.

I know love. So if it's true, like Sister Eve says, that God is love, then I guess I believe.

She gave Mother Beal a look I couldn't, at that age, interpret but I have since come to think of as profound maternal compassion, a strength emanating from a deep well of endurance that, across my life, I've come to understand was not particular to Sarah Schofield. I've witnessed it in other women who have suffered much without losing their hope or their gift for embracing with forgiveness those who are broken.

And, Jake, there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?

I thought if you loved someone you were supposed to, like, forgive them. I thought that was what love was supposed to be all about." Cork shook his head: "Easy to say, harder to do.

The sound of his deep sobs was enough to make a stone weep. It's impossible to witness such open grief and not feel pity wrung from your heart... I couldn't recall ever hearing a grown man cry this way. It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.

understood he was crying. Someone

I lay on the straw matting, thinking about how much I'd hated Albert when I believed that he'd toadied out on us. And I thought about how much I loved him right at that moment, though I would never have told him so.

THE WORLD IS HARD. BE STRONG. LOVE IS FOR ONLY A FEW. DON'T EXPECT IT. LIFE ISN'T FAIR. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE. BE ONE OF THEM.

Grandfather, sacred one, Teach us love, compassion, and honor, That we may heal the earth And heal one another.

She gave Mother Beal a look I couldn't, at that age, interpret but I have since come to think of as profound maternal compassion, a strength emanating from a deep well of endurance that, across my life, I've come understand was not particular to Sarah Schofield. I've witnessed it in other women who have suffered much without losing their hope or their gift for embracing with forgiveness those who are broken.

Quello che voglio dire, Odie, è che nessuno nasce cattivo. La vita ti deforma in maniera terribile.

I'm just saying, Odie, that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird. He

1. The world is hard. Be strong. 2. Love is for only a few. Don't expect it. 3. Life isn't fair. But some people are. Be one of them.

I'll pray for you, Emil,' he said. / 'About as useful as throwing a penny down a wishing well, Nathan.

there's going to be lots in this world you're going to feel bad about. Save your regret for the important things, okay?

I comfort myself with something Henry once told me. He said we all stumble in the dark, but that's why the Great Mystery gave us voices, so that we can call out, seeking others in the dark. And we were given hands so that we can reach out to help one another. Alone, the darkness swallows us. But together, we help each other through. So, when things seem bleakest, I tell myself to soldier on. I try to remind myself to call out. I do my best to be ready to offer a hand.

We are all strangers in this world, Maiev Shadowsong. We must help one another.