Quotes About Compassion

I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.

To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

if you want to create the kingdom potluck at the margins, you must relentlessly pursue the sort of community that makes it possible for the marginalized to "bring a plate.

I was in love with her. And it didn't matter that she wasn't in love with me. I loved her. It was my love story. I don't expect you to understand that but it's true. You don't have to be loved back. You can love anyway.

She throws herself at Julianne, calling her Mummy. I haven't heard her use the word in four years. "Be careful. Don't squeeze her too hard," warns the young blond paramedic. "Do you have children?" I ask her. "No." "You'll learn it doesn't hurt when they squeeze you hard.

Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with

Audie had never been a hater, because when people hate with too much energy it's normally something about themselves they hate the most.

Maybe that's the fate of someone who spends his life delving into other people's minds – listening to their worst fears, unmasking their flaws and discovering their motives. Maybe a man like that begins to rust or seize up – haunted by too many ghosts in the machine.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.' Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Have you ever had a patient who didn't want to be gay?" "Yes." "Did you try to fix them?" "There was nothing to fix. I can't change someone's sexuality. I help them come to terms with who they are. I help them cope with their own nature.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

Never let an old person live in your body.

If you're decent to others, then you're decent to yourself.

But it's not hell," Pete spoke with amazing confidence. "Not if you love him.

Era il giorno ch'al sol si scoloraro per la pietà del suo factore i rai… Antonio

I never traded my humanity for my long life, Doctor. I've always remembered my roots....You worked so hard to be like your Elder master that you've forgotten what it is like to feel human - to be human. And we humans...have the capacity to feel another creature's pain. It is what lifted humani above the Elders, it is what made them great.

She knew then that whatever he was -- whoever he was -- he had not lost his humanity.

This is what I have always loved about you humans. You are essentially good." "Not everyone," Machiavelli said tiredly. "No. Not everyone. But enough.

hate is the most useless of all emotions.

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. [...] Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

the humanity of whales.