Quotes About Compassion

Zoe wiped it away gently, as a tear dropped from her eye on to his cold pink nose.

David Walliams

Billionaire Boy

smiled in a week. "It's nice to see you smile, Dennis. Lisa told me what happened at school. I am very sorry." "Thanks, Raj." "I must say you had me fooled though! Very good you looked, Denise! Ha ha! But I mean, being expelled for putting on a dress. It's absurd! You haven't done anything wrong, Dennis. You mustn't

David Walliams

nashin awa wi their een watterin. But naebody wis aw that freendly tae him. Naebody stapped for a blether.

Hello, Raj," said Zoe sheepishly. "I don't have any money again today I am afraid." "Not a penny?" "Nothing. Sorry.

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.

Grace and mercy are God's love language to mankind.

Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?" "Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.

Anger is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.

after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

The summation of a person's life is the sum of what they held in their affections. This natural gravity field, this natural gravity well of belonging, which finds a particular coloration according to the way we're made, is the secret keep to compassion.

all friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered . You take the choice in front of you. And then you keep picking the non-murder choice as long as you can.

There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.

Well, Amy figured you don't need more than five minutes on this planet to figure out that one thing we know about God—maybe the only thing—is that he favors those who act.