Quotes About Compassion

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

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As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Reject hatred without hating.

La oración coherente es el deseo de hacer el bien.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

I never knew how much the heart can expand.

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.

Even though I know Christopher can be hard and even cruel, it doesn't matter. I can only remember the things that made him like that. I think I should always go on loving him whatever I found out about him. I think I shall love him even when I'm dead. Do you think that is silly?" "No. It's the only sort of love that's worth having.

A mother knows her children's weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.

His deep voice rose with the conviction reminiscent of a newly ordained priest. "Do we choose those to be judged or those who may cast a stone? And if we do, are we not committing a sin far greater than the sinner? Are we not, by doing so, the greater sinners?

Friends helped friends. They listened, comforted, shared, and encouraged.

The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate of mind and spirit. In other words, the man was a saint.

Mothers always knew what was best for their children, and it was a mother's duty to steer the child back onto the right track, especially if said child had gone astray—

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An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.