Quotes About Compassion

unselfishness is so vital to one's fulfillment of the earth cycle.

He didn't know how to deal with people who were falling apart, how to comfort them. He wasn't sure if he'd just forgotten how to be with people at all.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

He hadn't judged her, though, nor had he condemned her. He'd simply seen the point she'd reached, beyond ever redeeming herself. Maybe

And I knew a secret to caring for someone, had learned it just this moment. You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. - Baba

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

J'aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

For you, a thousand times over. Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms.

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

People…shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

When you kill a man, you steal a life, Baba said. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?