Quotes About Compassion

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. --George Bernard Shaw

El buen Dios no debería dejar que se pueda joder a otro sin verle llorar, sin oír sus gritos, sin sentir su dolor y cargarlo en la memoria

She was his compass. His true north. She'd showed him the way home.

a "caregiver" might dislike the person to whom they are giving care, while a "carer" cares about the person, period.

sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

I sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

This time he heard his sister clearly sniffling and blowing her nose. It sliced him. Lou, his capable, businesslike older sister, was crying.

After thirty years on the beat, she finds it harder to center herself these days. A human can take only so much depravity and senseless loss of life.

You might have compassion fatigue, letting everyone dump on you all day. I bet you need a break—everyone else's trauma is getting to you. There's only so much a person can take in.

It sort of is," says Joe. "It's been like that for . . . My mom sometimes needs someone to watch out for her. She—she gets drunk, high, does stupid things.

Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.

I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.

I could not bear to leave you coldly or hurt you in any way, even if it were the smallest hurt." "A small hurt," he said. "That is like saying the guillotine blade nicks a bit.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

His back to the room, Jackson said, "I need a Chris." Because Chris was gay, Dare choked and Trace laughed.

Don't judge your feelings; notice them. Use them as your map. Don't be afraid of the truth.

It's impossible to get to know people deeply and not come to like them.

But Wendell told me that by diminishing my problems, I was judging myself and everyone else whose problems I had placed lower down on the hierarchy of pain. You can't get through your pain by diminishing it, he reminded me. You get through your pain by accepting it and figuring out what to do with it. You can't change what you're denying or minimizing. And, of course, often what seem like trivial worries are manifestations of deeper ones.

Forgiveness is a tricky thing, in the way that apologies can be. Are you apologizing because it makes you feel better or because it will make the other person feel better?

Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"),

Your misery doesn't change their situation. You can't lessen their misery by carrying it for them inside you.