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Quotes About Compassion

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
~ John C. Maxwell
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
~ John Cheever
The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.
~ John Cheever
Ama bütün evlilikler böyledir signore. İnsanlar sevgi yüzünden evlenseler dünya yaÅŸanacak bir yer deÄŸil, deliler için bir hastane olurdu...
~ John Cheever
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. Evarts Malloy was very thin. He had worked as a bus driver and he stooped a little
~ John Cheever
A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding, inexhaustibly good-humored, relaxed, kind to cats, dogs, and strangers, expansive, and compassionate.
~ John Cheever
Fellatio is the nicest thing one human being can do for another.
~ John Cheever
but the insanity of punishing someone physically for getting an answer wrong. It is terrifying how much of this deeply unkind, utterly pointless, in fact, mind-bogglingly COUNTERPRODUCTIVE kind of behaviour was meted out to children over the centuries by half-witted, power-crazed zombies like this heinous old bat—a large proportion of such psychopaths allegedly acting in the name of an all-loving God
~ John Cleese
And yet he did genuinely love Cordelia. Not with any kind of physical love. That was impossible. But with a feeling of pity that shook the foundations of his nature.
~ John Cowper Powys
And he recalled what Jason Otter had said about pity: how if you had pity and there was one miserable consciousness left in the universe, you had no right to be happy.
~ John Cowper Powys
What was the use of having a father who could exorcise devils, who could give sleep to the tormented, if he could not heal his own child's wounded heart?
~ John Cowper Powys
Every second of every day someone is going through the worst moments of their lives. If today's just an ordinary day for you, consider that to be a blessing.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you have to hurt someone, to be able to help. - Spencer Hastings
~ Unknown
In life if you can't have the mind to tolerates others you will find life so difficult to survive.
~ Unknown
I have found in life, that the ones hardest to love are really the ones needing the most.
~ Unknown
I feel that as people become older and mature, they should also become less complicated and easier to love.
~ Unknown
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
~ Unknown
There's nothing wrong with showing you care for someone. What's wrong is expecting them to do the same.
~ Unknown
When I saw how much pain love could bring I felt sorry for those in love, when I saw how much joy love could bring I envied those in love.
~ Unknown
I'm not actually mad at you, I just want you to care..
~ Unknown
The only thing I hate about you, is that I can't stay mad at you.
~ Unknown
This is not complicated: just let Love have its way with everything.
~ Scott Morrison
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
~ Rumi
I'm already hating myself at a single-on-Valentine's-Day level.
~ Unknown