Quotes About Compassion

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

I'm sorry, Aido. Always having to put up with homeless me must be very taxing.

Senti. Nonostante tu sia finita in queste condizioni, io ti piaccio ancora...? In questo caso... se ti va bene essere la mia seconda moglie... non ce niente che non possa fare per te. ... anche se avevo deciso di avere soltanto una sposa, per tutta la vita...

I have memories that I'm not using very often That I would be happy to give to someone who needed memories.

You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

Shoeshine looked disappointed. "Don't do that, young fella." "Do what?" "Try and label everyone you meet." The man coughed again. "It's lazy.

Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.

I drink some water and eat some cereal and then I take Abraham for a walk. He had spent the night eating the arm of the sofa but I don't want to judge him. He has enough issues already.

As civilisation advances, so does indifference.

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter.

Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings.

The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same. The only difference is that the pain of life has rapidly increased. So when you hear about someone killing themselves it's important to know that death wasn't any less scary for them. It wasn't a 'choice' in the moral sense. To be moralistic about it is to misunderstand.

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.

I'm having a pretty shit time too, if we're doing the Misery Olympics.

I think that basically we are all helping people. All the time. Every time any of us speaks openly about mental health, we are helping normalize an illness that is still handled with protective goggles and safety gloves.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

There is no panacea, or utopia, there is just love and kindness and trying, amid the chaos, to make things better where we can.

Forgiving other people is great practice for forgiving yourself when the time comes.