Quotes About Compassion

To find our loving feelings, many times we need first to feel all our negative feelings.

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.

To avoid arguing we need to remember that our partner objects not to what we are saying but to how we are saying it. It takes two to argue, but it only takes one to stop an argument

Always remember you are needed in this world and that your commitment, character, and higher love make all the difference.

Use this book to let yourself or your partner ease up on each other, and you will be using it to create more love in your life. Above all else, love is giving, compassionate, and forgiving. If these insights help you to keep your heart open, then they have served their purpose.

How had I missed this? She just needed me to go over and hold her. Another woman would have instinctively known what Bonnie needed. But as a man, I didn't know that touching, holding, and listening were so important to her. By recognizing these differences I began to learn a new way of relating to my wife. I would have never believed we could resolve conflict so easily.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

Poverty is a great equalizer

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…" -Judge Frank Howell Seay

I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.

Look at me, he said, glancing down at his legs. A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer about to be gassed like an animal. And look at you. A fine young man with a beautiful education and a bright future. Where in the world did I go wrong? What happened to me? I've spent my life hating people, and look what I have to show for it. You, you don't hate anybody. And look where you're headed. We have the same blood. Why am I here?

Meanness does not inspire loyalty.

In the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus teaches the importance of forgiveness. He knows we're human and our natural tendency is to seek revenge, to strike back, to condemn those who hurt us, but this is wrong. We're supposed to forgive, always.

He prayed long and hard for justice and healing, but was a bit light on mercy.

You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can't you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?

ayudaba a ambas familias, la de las víctimas y

Thirty-one real people were waiting for me to get food stamps, locate housing, file divorces, defend criminal charges, obtain disputed wages, stop evictions, help with their addictions, and in some way snap my fingers and find justice.

as well as depressing, but each day I feel like I'm making a small difference. We walked a kid out of prison last week. His parents were waiting by the gate, and everyone was in tears, including me. FYI—one

Part of being a good kid was learning to overlook the shortcomings of adults.

We never forget that we were twenty-four hours late at 9/11. This is our world. This is the pressure we're under. Sorry for the speech.

I wanted to work alone (painting the fence). I wanted to seem outmatched and undermanned by the insanity of the job before me, so that when the Mexicans returned they'd feel sorry for me.

Theo could think of nothing but April and of her miserable home life, her warring parents, her scarred brother and sister

A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally

She nodded again, and took a deep breath. A small tear managed to find its way through the swelling and dropped onto her left cheek. He