Quotes About Compassion

To be faithful, he wrote, a person had to be concerned less about himself and more about caring for his neighbor.

But sometimes, I hate myself for hating him. Simply because he is an ordinary boy.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd it is that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.

Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind." But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.

Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?" I still can't look up. But I nod. "It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing. But it's everything.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times, and a hundred times more. I have been starved, and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd is it that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.

Let us live without hate among those who hate

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

When you help folks solve their problems, don't be surprised if you solve your own.

I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.

Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.

I cannot do All the good That the world Needs But the world Needs all the good That I can do. —JANA STANFIELD, "All the Good," Let the Change Begin

Certainty about one's moral stance might be soothing, but it tends to blinker us to damage we are about to cause.

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mean that if you spend your time putting the love of your heart into what you do for those who are not your friends, you may often be disappointed and discouraged. But if you keep on trying you will find your happiness in loving, whether you are loved back or not.

Children who are not loved themselves often find it difficult to love others.

He is love, and when love comes in, hatred and selfishness and unkindness will give way to it, just as the darkness gives way when you let in the sunshine. But try to chase it alone would be trying to chase the shadows out of a dark room. It would be a waste of time.

you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people

I was a grown woman before I found out black folks aren't the only ones who have hard times. Everybody's got a struggle. Nobody gets through this life easy.

She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.

I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing you love doing.

Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year round.