Quotes About Compassion

To all the health workers. And the care workers. Thank you.

Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

Mum turned around in the passenger seat and looked at me and smiled and the smile had a slightly crumpled quality, her eyes glazed with tears. I felt it. The weight of Mum. The weight of being a son that had gone wrong. The weight of being loved. The weight of being a disappointment. The weight of being a hope that hadn't happened the way it should have.

But I have found over the years that by reading about other people who have suffered, survived, and overcome despair, I have felt comforted. It has given me hope.

I wished I had a new wound, just so she could attend to me.

In quel momento pensò a come sarebbe stato accettarsi completamente. Ogni singolo errore. Ogni singola cicatrice sul suo corpo. Ogni singolo sogno mai realizzato, ogni singolo dolore che aveva provato.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

It's easy not to judge people for having an illness, its a lot harder not to judge people for how the illness occasionally caused them to behave. Because people can't see the reasons.

You don't have to continually im prove yourself to love yourself. Love is not something you de serve only if you reach a goal. The world is one of pressure but don't let it squeeze your self compassion. You were born wor thy of love and you remain wor thy of love. Be kind to yourself.

Nu pedepsesti pe nimeni in afara de tine daca tii ura inauntrul tau. Ceilalti sunt ceilalti. Tu esti tu.

You can always tell if someone is kind because kindness is the sparkle inside their eyes.

Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through.

No. Es por todo. Parece imposible vivir sin hacer daño la gente.

I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

Some would look at Emily's life and think that a child born with Down's syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily's life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

Y. Stemple, tells a heartfelt story about a young

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around.

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it." Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.