Quotes About Compassion

But mad passion wasn't a necessary prerequisite for tenderness or consideration, was it?

The big Scot had sat by the man's side all night, listening, encouraging, comforting. Grey had stood by the door, not wishing to frighten the man by the sight of his uniform, both surprised and oddly touched at Fraser's gentleness.

Grey seized him by the shoulders, seeking to ease him back. "Henry, my dear. Do forgive me. I didn't mean—

He felt a moment's passionate gratitude to her. He'd seen her look at the boy, and knew how she must feel. She'd known about the lad, of course, but seeing the flesh-and-blood proof that her husband had shared another woman's bed wasn't something a wife should be asked to put up with. Little wonder if she was inclined to stick pins in John, him pushing the lad under her nose as he had.

It was one thing to know Christ as God and Savior and all the other capital-letter things that went with that. It was another to realize with shocking clarity that, bar the nails, he knew exactly how Jesus of Nazareth had felt. Alone. Betrayed, terrified, wrenched away from those he loved, and wanting with every atom of one's being to stay alive.

There are ways of killing other than a knife or a gun, and there are things worse than physical death.' His tone softened. In Saint Anne, you pulled back from more than one kind of death, mo duinne, and never think I don't know it. ' He shook his head. 'Perhaps I do owe you more than you owe me, after all.

No dicen que la felicidad es la persona capaz de hacer que uno se recomponga cuando está roto?

John—well." He lifted his shoulders and let them drop. "I couldna give him what he wanted—and he is friend enough not to ask it.

What hurts you cleaves my heart," he said softly. "Ye ken that, aye?

The greylag mate for life. If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. That much, Raymond had taught me.

We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.

My wife looked after children with disabilities. She is brilliant at it. I admire her because I could not do it, it would be heart-wrenching. It takes a real sort of person to do that and not get attached because I would.

I don't like attacking.

As attorney general, I've led a victim-centered office.

I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are.

I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.

I'm not an austere person.

No one wants critical, 'You can't do this or that' religion. People want authentic love, and that's what we are displaying.