Quotes About Compassion

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept—as much as one can bear

Because ... as you already know from experience, I wont abandon a damsel in distress

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Ar trebui s? se pun? un gr?tar la intrarea în orice suflet. Ca s? nu se bage nimeni în el cu cu?itul.

I didn't want children because I didn't want them to suffer. I had a dog, which suffered enough. I don't even want a goldfish or a turtle. I have a desert plant in my house that needs a glass of water maybe once a year, which I can deliver.

she doesn't walk behind Abba as in the old days, but gently leads him along while he gets his strength back.

she eloquently explains how forgiveness could only surface after a whole sequence of emotional responses to trauma that began with the simple act of having compassion for her own pain.

the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love, there is always enough warmth for the human soul to thrive.

I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will.

Mirar los errores pasados con compasión no significa ser permisivo con ellos, sino ver en ciertas actuaciones nuestra ignorancia y no nuestra maldad. Quien ve ignorancia tras un error busca la corrección; quien ve maldad busca el castigo.

El verdadero encuentro entre los seres humanos no sólo es uno de los mejores antidepresivos que existen, sino que además prolonga la vida. Tal vez a la vista de estos datos, la comunicación pueda retomar el papel en nuestra vida que nunca tendría que haber perdido.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

Lo primero que tenemos que aprender a hacer es dejar de agredir, de maldecir y de odiar a nuestros «enemigos». La sabiduría nos permite entender que ellos no están mucho más ciegos que nosotros.

Cuando usted reaccione de una manera que no le guste, no se juzgue ni se critique duramente, porque eso no le llevará a cambiar.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. And they have to work a lot longer and harder than more privileged people do.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Lo que sí no es ningún tipo de diversión es la cantidad cada vez mayor de personas que han venido a morir al salón de belleza. Ya no son solamente amigos en cuyos cuerpos el mal está avanzado, sino que la mayoría son extraños que no tiene dónde irse a morir.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Cuando uno soporta sufrimientos propios no tiene necesidad de adjudicarse dolores ajenos.

El buen compañerismo consiste muchas veces en callar, en respetar el laconismo del otro, en comprender que eso es lo que el otro necesita en esa precisa y oscura jornada, y entonces arroparlo con nuestro silencio, o dejar que él nos arrope con el suyo, pero, y este pero es fundamental, sin que ninguno de los dos lo pida ni lo exija, sino que el otro lo comprenda por sí mismo, en una espontánea solidaridad.