Quotes About Compassion

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.

Partial kindness breaks the heart...

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.

But they hadn't seen the expression on Adam's face that day. Forgiveness just wasn't an option, not in this case. Anyway, that really wasn't the point. She didn't want forgiveness. All Leonie ever wanted was for Adam to know that she'd never meant to hurt him, and if she managed that, it would be enough.

I simply nodded. 'I disagree actually. I have read that those people who are surrounded by love, compassion and the positive attitude of others - while also believing in their own ability to heal, or having a type of dedication to a greater energy, be it karma, God, magic, whatever - have a surprising survival rate. Hence, I choose to make sure my interests in this area are equally balanced.

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor. [Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?

good people deserve help

I see humanity's flaws, but I see the goodness too.

What only a wise person realized was that the strongest of women sometimes simply needed to have someone else make the decisions for them behind closed doors. Not always. Not every day. Sometimes.

Place had an ill or special needs sibling and needed time together with others in the same situation.

Why did tears make people treat you like a five-year-old when usually they meant something grown-up was going on inside?

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

The Red Cross nurses came out to the train to give us coffee and doughnuts. Our officer, our captain, who was white, he said serve the Germans first. Our Red Cross nurses said, no, we'll serve our boys first.

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.