Quotes About Compassion

Le habían confundido, le habían atado a una apuesta y lo acosaban. Le acaricié la piel suave de la frente. Yo le desataría… si me resultaba posible y él me dejaba.

Patroclo —dice—, Patroclo, Patroclo. Lo repite una y otra vez hasta que la palabra es solo un sonido. Ulises se arrodilla y le insta a comer y beber. Le invade una ira feroz al oír eso y está a punto de matarle, pero para eso debería dejarme y no puede. Me sujeta con tanta fuerza que casi noto el latido de su corazón, como el aleteo de una mariposa. Es un eco, el último jirón de mi espíritu aún sujeto a mi cuerpo. Un suplicio.

He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

He fought to save you, and your darling reputation. Because he could not bear to see you suffer!

Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.

We don't kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air and flew.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

You can't marry an ungenerous man; there's no joy in his soul.

Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one's motives entirely misunderstood?

We are real only in moments of kindness.

Somebody said, 'We are real only in moments of kindness.

But even when people are too weak to speak, or have lost consciousness, they can hear; hearing is the last sense to fade.

hiring a home health aide, who wound up spending nearly as much time and energy helping Joe as she did Laura.

When Death Is Close

Dr. Kübler-Ross expanded on this theme in her 1961 book, On Death and Dying

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Liz hugged her. "It's all over now," she said. "I'm sorry about Black Magic, but

Liz pulled her best china from the top cupboard. "I invited Cecilly because she has nowhere else to go," she said. "It's Christmas. People shouldn't be alone at Christmas. It's not right." "It's not right that we're stuck with her, either," Holly muttered, but Mom didn't hear.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger.