Quotes About Compassion

I reached out and touched a tiny pink toe that peeked from Kaden's swaddling shirt. "He's beautiful," I said. "How are you feeling?" "Well enough," she answered, rolling her eyes, "considering I just paraded my lady parts to a killer barbarian." She sighed. "But I suppose, compared to what you've been through, it's a small indignity to bear.

He was a man, not a monster, as you imagine. He died the way all men die, one breath at a time.

Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered.

stopped him, pushing him to his feet again by the tip of my sword. "It shouldn't matter if I am a tavern maid or a princess. When I see you treating others with respect without regard to their station—or anatomy—then your apology will mean something." I

cause only the Lord knows the heart of a man. ain't our job to be second-guessing.

Taking a life, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

For everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Because I knew the guilt would destroy her, and I couldn't bear for her to suffer any more than she already had. Orrin

A simple chain we had both cursed had done the unthinkable - it forced us to see the world through each other's eyes.

Sometimes it takes just one person who won't let evil win.

there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few of them.

When you are on the lowest rung of society, you are a comforting reminder to those just a bit above you that life could always be worse, that they are not you.

The queen once told me there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few.

Tomar a vida de outra pessoas, ela havia sussurrado, até mesmo sendo alguém culpado, nunca deve ser fácil. Se fosse, seríamos um mais do que animais

Big cities can have big hearts.

The past is all forgiven long ago, dear Ringwood," said his sister earnestly; "it would be ill for brother and sister if the love between them could not outlive old injuries, and be the brighter and the truer for old sorrows.

Justice to the dead first," he said; "mercy to the living afterward.

For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there.

humane changes with the knowledge

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside

When people rally together to support a good cause, it shouts a second message to the community at large, that people can work unselfishly together if our eyes are on God and on those in need, rather than on our own advancement.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Be a loyal friend. Be a kind person. Work hard. And choose to be happy.