Quotes About Compassion

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. Their smile. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

wanted to hear more about Thomas. I wanted to know that he had a good heart, that he had saved someone on the brink, that I could depend on him. I wanted in him all the traits any female would want in the male she chose as the father for her offspring.

You could lose track of someone when you blinked, Alex realized. She vowed not to let that happen to her and her daughter. Because when it came down to it, being a judge didn't matter nearly as much as being a mother. When Alex's clerk had told her the news about the World Trade Center, her first thought had not been for her constituents . . . only for Josie.

I don't believe in God but sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other and to thrive in spite of the odds.

His hand fell like a prayer on her temple.

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

Don't blame yourself; this isn't your fault

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

That would be good," Win says. "For Felix, too." I believe that there are five things we need to say to people we love before they die, and I give this advice to caregivers: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.' – HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

You can love a pet more than you love some people," I say suddenly, surprising even myself. Everyone turns, because unlike the others, I hardly ever draw attention to myself by volunteering information. "It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situation, or that it was possible to love someone in a way that you had not personally experienced.

He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years

If you want to feel sorry for yourself," Mary continues, "then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with. —RAY BRADBURY, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

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.

Bad things happen to good people every day." —

Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump us all together just because we're Jews?

Sometimes making the world a better place just involves creating space for the people who are already in it.

where all the differences in schooling and money and skin colour evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off.

Once, when her brothers had been fighting over who got more spaghetti for dinner, her mother had said, You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.