Quotes About Compassion

A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.

El problema es que, por lo general, estamos demasiado absortos en nosotros mismos: pensamos más en lo que queremos de otras personas que en lo que ellas podrían querer de nosotros.

This reveals the power you have to short-circuit envy by placing attention on other people instead of yourself and engaging with them on a meaningful level.

Empathy plays an enormous role in learning and knowledge.

You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you? Charlie McGuire, Fatherland

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Be slow to label others as assholes, be quick to label yourself as one.

two tests that I use for spotting whether a person is acting like an asshole: • Test One: After talking to the alleged asshole, does the "target" feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled by the person? In particular, does the target feel worse about him or herself? • Test Two: Does the alleged asshole aim his or her venom at people who are less powerful rather than at those people who are more powerful?

at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

I'll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.

People are people, low or high.

An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

You are a fine judge of character, child. You must have done well as the Wisdom of your village. It was Laras who went to Sheriam and demanded to know how long you three are to be kept to the dirtiest and hardest work, without a turn at lighter. She said she would not be a party to breaking any woman's health or spirit, no matter what I said. A fine judge of character, child.

Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.

He now felt just that. Pity for a woman who had never known love, a woman who would not let herself know it. Pity for a woman who could not choose a side other than her own.

It's all right, son. It's all right." "I've done so much that is terrible." "Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.

Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for.

You can't hold a man to blame for what he does when he's crazy, can you?" "You were always crazy," Perrin said, and for a moment he, too, sounded as of old. "No," Nynaeve said. Tears made her eyes bright, but she was smiling. "None of us blames you.

I??k insan? cinsiyetine göre deÄŸil, yüreÄŸindekilere göre yarg?lar.

Birgitte's breast held a strangely soft heart for small boys, especially ugly ones.

Si alguna vez te enamoras de una mujer, Rand, abandónala y deja que encuentre a otro. Será el mejor regalo que puedes hacerle.