Quotes About Compassion

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

You're too lazy, passive to suffer. I do that for you too.

I still love you, for I see your soul

I wish you didn't have to go through things I've been through.

I'm sickened by all the suffering I'm aware of.

No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.

How much have you suffered? It isn't just, is it? No it's not

I want us to be better people.

can I be good and also save you?

It is past time everyone sees Negro girls can be touched by white hands without lust or anger. If Martha loses her show, that is nothing compared to what Negro girls lose every day when people don't understand that.

Some people are so sweet you can't hold the thought of them and trouble in the same mind at the same time.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.

Disabled people caring for each other can be a place of deep healing," says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn someone is trying' to tear someone down in some way. Everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

In a single session, with the brand of rapid-fire energy that had fueled our work together thus far, we wrote "We Are Here." Two lines of the song conveyed the message I most hoped would resonate: "We are here for all of us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Our souls were brought together so we could love each other.

When you love someone, you love their journey—

Habrá alguna ciudad en el mundo que tenga un monumento reivindicatorio a la prostituta? ¿Un monumento rodeado de jardines y de tristeza, un monumento frente al cual las mujeres suspiren y los hombres se llenen de vergüenza?