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Quotes About Compassion

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care?
~ Octavia E. Butler
There are times when I wish I believed in hell—other than the hells we make for one another, I mean.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If God is Change, then... then who loves us? Who cares about us? Who cares for us?" "We care for one another," I said. "We care for ourselves and one another.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In spite of your loss and pain, you aren't alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can't afford water, food, or shelter.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally." "Wait a minute," he said. "I'm not minimizing the wrong that's being done here. I just …" "Yes you are. You don't mean to be, but you are.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Per me i cadaveri sono disgustosi. Puzzano e se sono lì da un po' sono pieni di vermi. Ma in fondo che cosa importa? Sono morti. Non soffrono più e se non ti piacevano quando erano vivi, perché turbarsi tanto ora che sono morti? Cory è rimasta sconvolta. Se la prende con me perché condivido il dolore dei vivi, ma lei cerca di condividerlo con i morti.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The earthquake had done a lot of damage in Hollister, but the people hadn't gone animal. They seemed to be helping one another with repairs and looking after their own destitute. Imagine that.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares like yours and maybe hers.
~ Octavia E. Butler
This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.
~ Octavia E. Butler
They say we have no business wasting time or money in space when there are so many people suffering here on Earth, here in America.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?
~ Octavia E. Butler
A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kindness eases change Love quiets fear
~ Octavia E. Butler
Any person who hurts Nami-san's feelings I won't let them live peacefully. -Sanji
~ Unknown
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
~ Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~ Og Mandino
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
~ Og Mandino
Compassion itself is noble.
~ Unknown