Quotes About Compassion

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you.

I wouldn't kill your pony. I'd like to believe it, anyway. I'd like to believe I wouldn't drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn't come up.

Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven, even though we didn't deserve it.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

he knows you, and he's talking to you, but you're in pain and you cannot understand him.

The world doesn't know what to do with my love. Because it isn't used to being loved. It's a framework problem.

This time everyone has the best intentions. You have cancer.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

He believes that, just as pretending to be brave can lead to acts of real bravery, seeing the good in other people improves the chances that they will reveal their better selves.

By behaving honorably, even to people who may not deserve it, he believes you can influence them to behave more honorably than they otherwise would. This

In the age of AIDS I had been making it a practice to imagine a skull and crossbones on the forehead of every possibly available comely gay man I found myself alone with, but Slonski's kept fading in, fading out.

Three persons is the necessary minimum for unselfish love betweenpersons of some kind.

In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.

The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

May your home be so holy with laughter that wounded birds lean against your door to listen and heal. – Richard Van Camp's Twitter and Facebook Posts, July 22, 2017 (Ma traduction en français : Que votre maison soit si bénie par le rire que les oiseaux blessés s'appuient contre votre porte pour écouter et guérir.)

Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.

We are not merely the most intelligent of animals. We also have a rare and perplexing combination of moral tendencies. We can be the nastiest of species and also the nicest.

However, being moral can include not only acts of kindness but also deeds of conformity and violence.

I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

There is enough for everyone on this earth. There always was. When you gaze up at the sky on a starry night, that's what we need to remember.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.