Quotes About Compassion

BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools and hospitals.

I was loved, to be certain, but loved by people who didn't know how to love themselves.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

the vast majority of cops are good people doing a very difficult job. Even the assholes I've had to deal with were looking out for everyone else.

I'm not gonna let them go easy on me knowing he's out there hurting some other kid. How can a decent person live with that?" Indeed. Even a guy like Artice, who's caused his share of mayhem, sees that.

It's comforting to blame the misfortune of others on their own actions. It's also wrong.

You're going to die." I tell her this not to be cruel, but out of compassion. It's the uncertainty of things that tears our souls apart. She still thinks this is a dream, but her eyes are focused now. My words are working their way through her broken mind.

Theory of Mind to practical use—understanding how others see the world.

for all her faults, they knew that at heart she was a loving and loyal sister and daughter.

This needs a woman's touch', was her common refrain. Her view in essence was that so many issues and problems in a male-dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego. Problems could be more effectively addressed, she felt, when female qualities, as she saw them, of intuition, compassion, compromise and harmony were added to the equation.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick...

we may show mercy Ã¢â'¬â€œ we shall ask for none.

an old woman say 'You see, he really cares: he's crying.

They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, "Honey, I don't know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry," and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I'm just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn't lead, their jobs I couldn't do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

They went through all that shit to raise you, and now you're sad so you jump off a fucking bridge. If my kid did that, I'd be pissed. What a fucking moron! I wouldn't even give him a funeral.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.