Quotes About Compassion

that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

unnecessary discomfort is a form of martyrdom with which I have no sympathy.

But that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

the wrongs of my oppressed sisters must always waken a flame of indignation in my bosom.

It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

Because we all love imperfectly.

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame

Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow...

People are sorry for brides who lose their husbands early, from some accident, or war. And they should be sorry, Mrs Palfrey thought. But the other thing is worse.

One is left so much on one's own. People are shy of the bereaved. They don't quite know what to be.

But so little does the rest of the world seem to care if we act nobly or otherwise that no help came to her

I wish,' said Rose anxiously, 'I understood you.' 'Don't try,' said Lotty, smiling. 'But I must, because I love you.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

Un'amicizia incapace di aiutare potrebbe benissimo fare a meno di esistere.

How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?

Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk—

kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled, not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk—real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope?

Medical problems, job losses, and family breakups had laid these families low. Most had hung on and tried to repay long past any reasonable chance of doing so. As I saw it, the families in bankruptcy were mostly good people caught in a bad situation

Pick your own act of defiance, something that says to you—and to others—that you won't go along with the hate.

You can't fix a problem you can't see. Simply saying that the laws (or the economy, or the rules that govern policing, or anything else) are racially blind doesn't mean that reality is racially blind. To attack problems head-on--to be anti-racist--begins with asking questions about race.

I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.