Quotes About Compassion

You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.

one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

As she reads, I listen to her

Achei que se eu fosse legal, gente boa, ela entenderia que pode contar comigo. Mas não é assim que a gente sabe que pode contar com alguém. A gente descobre isso nos momentos em que todo mundo está cansado demais para ser legal, cansado demais para se esforçar. A gente descobre vendo o que essa pessoa faz por nós.

Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love," he said. "We do, but it's shitty and ultimately, regardless of what they did or didn't do, we're the ones who feel like we failed.

I'll just assume that whatever your mother did wrong, she did one thing great. That's you. She figured it out enough to make you. I can overlook the rest. And you can have the freedom to feel whatever you want toward her. With no judgment.

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.

She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn't separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love.

Those hands had rescued her from horror and she would never forget it.

Los juicios, en definitiva, nos acercan o nos alejan de los otros, y hay que saber hacerlos a un lado para poder captar la verdadera esencia de cualquier persona. Esto suena muy fácil, pero no lo es. (P. 186)

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She realized that you can't be weak when it comes to killing: you have to be strong or it just causes more sorrow.

pero eso no significa que no se le pueda rescatar, sí se puede, pero antes es necesario que uno reconozca cuáles son los hilos invisibles que nos mantienen unidos a los demás. Cuáles son nuestros puntos de unión. Nuestros puntos de contacto. Por lo mismo, Lupita no entendía por

Apparently having your girlfriend get shot in the head and Life Flighted away takes its toll on a guy. Imagine that? I told him it was no biggie, but he's been kind of edgy about it.

For a man who claimed he didn't have much patience, he'd given her oceans of it. He

Every war is more or less a woman's war.

He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

Mother said she would always believe that Providence had sent the strange dog to watch over them. Almanzo thought perhaps he stayed because Alice fed him. Maybe he was sent to try us, Mother said. Maybe the Lord was merciful to us because we were merciful to him.

friends will stand by me in trouble. They will

I don't care if you're a bloody Hindu.

I know you aren't speaking to me for some reason, but I care about you so much that I'll come here where I know I'll get spit on and abused, and I'll sit on that cold floor just to be near you!