Quotes About Compassion

Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don't like you to be big.

Two broken, lonely people who maybe aren't so broken or lonely anymore.

In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

I can go downstairs right now and let my mom know how I am feeling-if she's even home-but she'll tell me to help myself to the Advil in her purse and that I need to relax and stop getting myself worked up, because in this house there's no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue. Things fall into categories of black and white- bad mood, bad temper, loses control, feels sad, feels blue.

You can't always be fine. No one's always fine. And I know you're used to being on your own, and I know I should have been a better friend so that you didn't have to get used to being on your own, but I'm here now, and I wish you'd talk to me

I'm sorry. I love you. But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.

I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone

The problem with people is that they forget that, most of the time, it's the small things that count.

My mama's purpose had been to love and to be loved.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it.

What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.

I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.

has happened with Finch. In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. Actually, I know exactly how that feels. *

But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.

But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have. - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

So it always is, he thought, to relieve another you must burden yourself.

The thing about fear,' said Cadfael, seriously considering, 'is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten. Would you recoil from taking a leper's hand, if he needed yours, or you his, to be hauled out of danger? I doubt it. Some men would, perhaps-- but of you I doubt it. You would grip first and consider afterwards, and by then fear would be clearly a mere waste of time.

It's nice to be loved for one's faults and not one's virtues! ...Knowing that whatever you do or however badly you behave, he still feels the way he said just now. But if people really love each other their faults don't matter, said Bracken..Dinah regarded him with large, serious eyes. I wonder how many people could say that, she murmured.

There, there, she said. Don't take it so hard, Dee. Wars don't last forever. I know. I can remember...

She knew by some sure instinct that when you had come right up against it, as Jeff had, you had no use for people who advised you to brace up, or who pointed out bright spots. She know that there is nothing so infuriating, when you are bearing all you can, as shallow, unrealistic optimism from someone who has not experienced the same disaster.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.