Quotes About Compassion

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.

How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.