Quotes About Compassion

We don't care about everyone… It isn't in our natures. We can only care about those we know, or those we are connected with.

Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.

it is not half so important to know as to feel

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel)

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns...

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform

I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform," Sir Ian said with a bow.

I hope that global warming will go away. I hope that people won't be homeless. I hope that suffering will not exist. I want to believe that my hope is not in vain. I want to believe that even though I hope for things that are so magnanimous, I am not a bad person because what I really want to believe in is purely selfish. I want to believe there is somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

I always made it my mission to like him, because somebody has to like the people no one else likes or the world would just be hopeless. And the best way to extract holiday cheer, I've found, is to spend time with the most curmudgeonly person you know , and their grump can't help but force you into feeling good, because it gives you perspective and balance.

I volunteer to be the comfort of the in-between.

What do I want for Christmas?" He looked thoughtful for a second, then said, "World peace?" "Not helpful!

I hope that global warming will go away. I hope that people won't be homeless. I hope that suffering will not exist. I want to believe that my hope is not in vain.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat animals.

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt, so wounded all he could do was cry and mope around the house and ask me to make him peanut butter and banana sandwiches with the crusts cut off, then play Boggle with him, which of course I always did, because I usually do whatever Langston wants me to do.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Two walls have dropped from between us: pride and justice. It no longer matters who was right. The Hippocratic oath has no place here - do no harm is the wrong standard for love. Everyone does harm.

If we looked through the eyes of history, we'd live differently. We'd live right.

Love has mass and volume. Put it into your life; it must displace something. As it has displaced my notion of what was good and important in the world, and substituted this: The knowledge that there is nothing more important than people willing to stand up for the truth of each other. The understanding of what it is to protect another fragile being. The understanding that I, too, will grow old.