Quotes About Compassion

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem.

It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

believe we can carry both the pain of the victim and the truth of the accused without doing disservice to either.

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

She thinks about how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

helped him with his leg, and she hadn't offered to do a single

One of the best ways to get an idea of how a woman feels about being a woman is to take a look at how she treats other women.

We always need to listen for the untold story.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don't have a choice there. They can't decide not to fight.

Cat rescue is like a virus," says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable.

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.

People who think they need high-pressure methods or tools—pinch collars or electric appliances—to train a dog have no clue how to train a dog well. Training, both as a hobby and as a profession, should be pleasant for the dog and the handler. It should be a successful learning process that yields progress for both parties. If training becomes a torment for the handler or the dog, then both parties are on the wrong track.

may I say prayers for the dead?

The socon [social conservative] Bible seems to have had the references to forgiveness and gentleness expunged somewhere along the line, and Jesus has become the Lord of Nastiness rather than the Prince of Peace."

I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?

Few of us have enough wisdom for justice, or enough leisure for humanity.

When I finished, explaining that I had let him go because I was human, as he had said, he held it for another minute and then opened his eyes. He grunted. "You are not more human than I am. You are merely more susceptible, more sociable, and more vulnerable.

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV