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Quotes About Compassion

I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.
~ Emma Forrest
Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.
~ Emma Goldman
It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
~ Emma Goldman
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
~ Emma Goldman
The guilt of these homicides lies upon every man and woman who, intentionally or by cold indifference, helps to keep up social conditions that drive human beings to despair.
~ Emma Goldman
The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.
~ Emma Goldman
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather: Understand one another.
~ Emma Goldman
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
~ Emmet Fox
Cowardice is just thinking of your own miserable skin instead of somebody else's.
~ Enid Blyton
another'sdiscom
~ Enid Blyton
heartedness
~ Enid Blyton
Pretty Sick Dog
~ Enid Blyton
We ought to get the RSPCA after them. It's cruel to push dogs through coal-holes and leave them there in the darkness. For all we know they have no food or drink.
~ Enid Blyton
I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today. He leaned in close and whispered, I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.
~ Eoin Colfer
Don't hate me forever, Arty, whispered Holly. I couldn't bear that.
~ Eoin Colfer
Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.
~ Eoin Colfer
This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it." Butler would not give up. "Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There's nothing in this for you.
~ Eoin Colfer
Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.
~ Eoin Colfer
M...maybe,' I stutter. 'Whatever the reason, this woman has problems. We need to be compassionate, show understanding.' 'Or slice her head off. I have plastic bags.' Sure. We could toss her in the car beside her partner, then drive to the mall where I dumped Macey and line up all three bodies together in the Lexus. Hell, why not steal Connie's corpse from the morgue to complete the set?
~ Eoin Colfer
He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.
~ Eoin Colfer
I was a broken boy, and you fixed me.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis zorgde er met wat kussens voor dat Holly gemakkelijk lag. 'Weet toch, lieve vriendin, dat ik zonder jou niet degene zou zijn die ik nu ben.' Hij boog zich dicht naar haar toe en fluisterde: 'Ik was er slecht aan toe, en jij hebt me gered. Dank je wel.
~ Eoin Colfer
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
~ Epictetus