Quotes About Compassion

even as foolish as Walsh seems, she is moved by a vulnerability that underlies his pomposity.

As he cried out in tremulous and wordless horror, she put her arms around him, her secret friend, and held him tight. Although he was older than her, she heard herself saying, "Sweet boy, dear boy, my child, my friend, I'll never abandon you.

she was generous with her time and energy, and in her own generosity she found joy.

Whether God's a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.

I think the past might be our future, that we're busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity.

On Evil: There's too much darkness in some people, corruption that could never be cleaned out in five lifetimes of rehabilitation. Evil is real, it walks the earth. Sometimes the devil works by persuasion. Sometimes he just sets loose these sociopaths who don't have a gene for empathy or one for compassion.

is not an active tormentor but a passive observer in the home, her child has a third option. He can choose to grant her mercy without pardon, and find compassion for her in recognition that her stunted emotional development denies her the fullest enjoyment of life.

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

I realized I only judged people when they displayed a quality I could not accept in myself.

Kindness is something that should always be passed on.

Every human has the capacity to love

forgiveness isn't a gift we give the offender. It's something we do for ourselves.

Being kind is like looking at your own reflection in the calm waters of a lake. Then the act of kindness ripples those waters, like a stone tossed upon the surface.

Love means more to me than being sexually compatible. It means being an important part of your life as you'll be in mine. It means encouraging you to be everything you've ever wanted to be, sharing in your triumphs and comforting you in your failures. It means giving you the courage to try again. That's what love is all about.

Doing something for someone else made you feel better about yourself.

The thing I've learned - and trust me, I'm no expert- is that forgiveness isn't a gift we give the offender. It's something we do for ourselves

Guide to Moving On. The first item on that list was: Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.

As a kid I can remember my mother telling me that our lives are merely a reflection of what we see and do. If we are kind, others will treat us with kindness. If we love, we will be loved. If we care, we will be cared for.

A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person.

Christmas is a condition of the heart.

Merry Christmas. His would be without the Merry for sure.

If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.

She clung to life, not for herself, but for Julia's sake. It hurt her to know Ruth was in pain. Why did those who were good always have to suffer?

Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.