Quotes About Compassion

The rich and the poor have met, God is their light.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child.

the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven; and the water which is found in the vessel of mercy is holy...

And thus the... valley became a garden again, and the inheritance, which had been lost by cruelty, was regained by love.

Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can try to imitate it: and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, when their times comes.

If we're others-centered, we'll be blessed, but if we're clothed in selfishness, we'll be of limited value to others.

The nun said, "I can forgive the language. I'm not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother." "Ya gotta know her," Holland said. "If you knew her, you'd give her the finger, too.

You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.

Motherfucker who'd lock a live dog down in the basement," Zimmer said. "I don't think Glen would do that if he decided to kill himself. He'd at least let the dog outside. If Glen was murdered . . . Well, I can understand shooting somebody, but why would you do that to a dog?

Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first glance. A people who might terrify you from appearance alone. Could you make the jump, and understand that inside, they are not so different at all?

Here's a hot tip: If you think calling someone a social justice warrior is an insult, you might be a horrible person.

The short version was death, disease, despots and destruction. The longer version had kept him up wondering what the hell was wrong with people.

He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.

I saw the light go out in her eyes, but I kept telling her how much I loved her until they took her away from me at the hospital." "Why did you do that?" Jane asked. "I needed to be sure that the last thing she heard was me telling her how much I loved her," I said.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses.

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.

Actually, the captain and I were just talking about the plight of the less advantaged," Kiva said. "You?" Ghreni said, disbelieving. "One, fuck you, and two, yes.

Kiva had been struck by a realization that, if not exactly an epiphany, was certainly enough to make her stop in her tracks: Either she was going to have to become less fundamentally selfish, or she was going to have to find a way to make others less so.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough

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