Quotes About Compassion

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness was an opportunity for a lost and selfish human heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls. Cinnamon

I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love…. —Emily Dickinson

The crazy thing is, Mother, after more than twenty years of this crap, down at the bottom of my heart, where it ought to be the darkest, I think there's still this spark of love for you. It may be pity, I'm not sure, but it hurts enough to be love.

Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.

For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not.

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self interest.

Their perpetual readiness for play is endearing, and their willingness to forgive deception time after time is one of the key differences between the heart of a dog and the human heart. Trixie

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us.

Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then—not just with money, but however we can—wouldn't that be lovely?

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.

love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

Ideas shouldn't matter more than people." He

pity very often—not always—comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt.

Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. —This Momentous Day, H.R. White

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