Quotes About Compassion

When I was a girl, I thought love meant high romance and great drama, but now I understand that love that lasts is a constellation of small kindnesses.

All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could.

I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.

Life had been hard on him, but he was still moving, and he was still working, and he was still fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves.

A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time.

Love has many guises, Thea. Sometimes it's a stroke of lightning as it was for your father, other times a slow building storm as it was for me, but the one thing that never changes is that it must be nurtured. You can't kick a heart and expect it not to flinch.

Never allow the words of others to steal your worth—always remember that it is the weak and cowardly who attempt to devalue others. The strong uplift without fear, share their knowledge to help others grow.

Sometimes, you have to let people be sad. At least until they're ready to come out of that sadness.

Those who saw mortals as weak and without courage had never spoken to one who'd experienced loss such as this, a loss rare among angelkind.

He's a sick old man who's lost everything and everyone. You have a huge heart, Gabriel—find room in it to be kind.

The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room.

The song he sang was about a sparrow with a broken wing, and it fucking tore Abe's heart right out of his chest, left it bleeding on the floor.

Sometimes, it was better to extend the hand of friendship than to force compliance by fear.

El amor crece cuando se cuida

You have a huge heart, find room in it to be kind.

Perhaps this Beauty might just be willing to love her Beast.

That works." The tightness in her chest eased. "Kind of seems one-sided though. You're giving up everything." "I get you." A simple statement that meant more than she could ever articulate.

Love gives far more than it ever takes. And love makes us want to give. Words

You kiss my scars and I kiss yours. Fair?

How can I be angry with the other half of my soul?" he asked, his tone so tender it tore little pieces out of her heart.

Her heart was tender. She probably felt shame for a transgression others would've long forgotten.

He also has a woman willing to walk in his darkness and not judge him. You don't know how much that means.

And what, exactly, am I giving as I'm learning to do this giving thing?

No one ever knows the heart of anyone else