Quotes About Compassion

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

I think I can forgive a kind lie.

Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside every belief if it would save his daughters. "So?" Conor said. "So would anyone! So would everyone ! What did you expect him to do?

What did you do to help the invisible man?" And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was in his own head. I made them see, it said.

Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

You end up hating so many people that without even noticing, you start to hate everyone. Including yourself. But that's the trick, you see? The trick that makes everything survivable. You've got to love somebody.

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

I'm sorry for telling about your mom, read the first line. I miss being your friend, read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

She turns to me sharply. "To live _is_ to fight," she snaps. "To preserve life is to fight _everything_ that man stands for." She takes an angry huff of air. "And now her, too, with all the bombs. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim." Her voice has raised but she lowers it again. "That's my war," she says. "That's the war I'm fighting.

You told me, just now, just today, that you'd rather be dead than have to go through this much longer. I take that seriously. I don't think your suffering is fake. I don't think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don't think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it's fake?

You're a good boy. I wish you didn't have to be quite so good

They're weak and strong and they make mistakes, like anyone, like he has. And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more. More and more and more. Sometimes

Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

But war can't be personal," I say, almost asking it. "If it's the person that'll end the war," Ben says. "Then it's not personal, it's universal.

To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.

Poo, Todd! Poo!

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story , the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.