Quotes About Compassion

She stared at her own window. She thought of herself in her root life, hovering between life and death in her bedroom – equidistant, as it were. And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else. Not just another version of her, but a different actual person. As though finally, through all the experiences of life she now had, she had become someone who pitied her former self. Not in self-pity, because she was a different self now.

I love you," she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.

And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching the news.

who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it's by a single atom less. A single atom is all you need to make a very big explosion.

They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Don't worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough.

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human

Sembra impossibile vivere senza ferire le persone». «Perché è così». «E allora perché vivere?». «Beh, a essere sinceri, anche morire fa soffrire le altre persone. Dunque, quale vita vorresti scegliere adesso?».

And it doesn't have to be writers. I was one of millions of people not just saddened by Robin Williams's death, but scared of it, as if it somehow made it more likely for us to end up the same way.

Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

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.

No, the shock was that she felt like she was about to live. Or at least, that she could imagine wanting to be alive again. And she wanted to do something good with that life.

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.

She imagined what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made, every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature.

on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.

there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.

A world full of people hating themselves is not a happy world.

So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.