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Quotes About Compassion

Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear, said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Well, it was awful said, said Felicity, wiping her eyes. But it was long ago and we can't do any good by crying over it now. Let us go and get something to eat. I made some nice little rhubarb tarts this morning.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I CAN help people—I've learned that money isn't the only power for helping people. Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.
~ L.M. Montgomery
And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Never, if you can help it, be the bringer of ill news
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh yes, I don't deny I married you because I was sorry for you. And then-I found you the best and jolliest and dearest little pal and chum a fellow ever had. Witty-loyal-sweet. You made me believe again in the reality of friendship and love.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. - Miss Barry
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more . . . though I know that IS the noblest ambition . . . but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me . . . to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It was because you looked so happy. Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast—to hate another woman just because she was happy,—and when her happiness didn't take anything from me! That
~ L.M. Montgomery
she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about
~ L.M. Montgomery
You've been crying, Aunt Edith," said a troubled Timothy. He got up out of his chair and hugged her. "Just you wait till I grow up and when I'm a man nothing'll ever make you cry.
~ L.M. Montgomery
But trust one man to excuse another.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Shirley, the little brown boy, as he was known in the family Who's Who, was asleep in Susan's arms. He was brown-haired, brown-eyed and brown-skinned, with very rosy cheeks, and he was Susan's especial love. After his birth Anne had been very ill for a long time, and Susan mothered the baby with a passionate tenderness which none of the other children, dear as they were to her, had ever called out. Dr. Blythe had said that but for her he would never have lived.
~ L.M. Montgomery
There is something in me today that makes just love everybody I see.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You can't reason with prejudice.
~ L.M. Montgomery
him life just as much as you did, Mrs. Dr. dear, Susan was wont to say. He is just as much my baby as he is yours. And, indeed, it was always to Susan that Shirley ran, to
~ L.M. Montgomery
Bana öyle geliyor ki bu dünyada öyle ya da böyle iyi olmaktan kurtulam?yorsun. Sadece iyi olmak zorundas?n.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Anne, her zaman kimsenin duygular?n? incitmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyler. İnsan?n duygular?n?n incinmesi çok korkunç bir ÅŸey gibi görünüyor.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Fakat kimseyi incitmediÄŸimiz sürece, istediÄŸiniz zaman aptalca davranam?yorsan?z özgür ve yaÅŸl? bir han?m olman?n ne anlam? var?
~ L.M. Montgomery
and it don't never matter how poor you are as long as you've got something to love.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Üniversite eÄŸitiminden almak istediÄŸim ÅŸey, hayat? en iyi ÅŸekilde yaÅŸamak konusunda biraz bilgi ve bildiklerimle elimden gelenin en iyisini yapabilmek. Kendimi ve diÄŸer insanlar? anlamay?, onlara yard?m etmeyi öÄŸrenmek istiyorum.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Cissy Gay is dying,' she said, 'and it's a shame and disgrace that she is dying in a Christian community with no one to do anything for her. Whatever she's been or done, she's a human being.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Well, I'm glad Esme and Trix are both happy. Since my own little romance is in flower I am all the more interested in other people's. A nice interest, you know. Not curious or malicious but just glad there's such a lot of happiness spread about.
~ L.M. Montgomery