Quotes About Compassion

Mean people don't get away with anything, Blake. It may seem that they do, but in the end their meanness ricochets back at them.

Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!

I only want to catch you," Michael explained. "I won't hurt you." "No! No!" the star crackled desperately. "That's wrong! I'm supposed to die!" "But I could save you if you'd let me catch you," Michael told it gently. "No!" cried the star. "I'd rather die!

No I am not all right!" Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. "I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I'm tired out and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?

Mother knows you don't have to be unkind to someone in order to exploit them.

I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.

A heart's a heavy burden

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

You're still here, he said. Is something the matter? Sophie sniffed. I'm old, she began. But it was just as the Witch had said and the fire demon had guessed. Michael said cheerfully, Well, it comes to us all in time. Would you like some breakfast?

In fact, Cat was fairly sure Tonino was feeling just the way Cat had felt himself when he first came to Chrestomanci Castle, and Cat could not get over the annoyance of having someone have feelings that were his.

Now there, Charles,' said Chrestomanci, 'you have an excellent example quite apart from rights and wrongs, of why it is such a bad idea to do things to people. Everyone is now sorry for Simon. Which is not what you want at all, is it?

You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that.

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.

We did it because it was the right thing to do.

If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy?

Irena Sendler (code name Jolanta) described it. A Christian doctor's daughter with many Jewish friends, she reconfigured her job at the Social Welfare Department, recruited ten like-minded others, and began issuing false documents with forged signatures.

Yet 70,000–90,000 people in Warsaw and the suburbs, or about one-twelfth of the city's population, risked their lives to help neighbors escape. Besides the rescuers and Underground helpers, there were maids, postmen, milkmen, and many others who didn't inquire about extra faces or extra mouths to feed.

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

You and me, I said,we both got the same kind of hurt inside us. She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

The spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he. There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us but that we grow wise. -attributed to Surak

If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.