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Quotes About Compassion

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".
~ Andrew Vachss
You know what pit bulls are capable of, right? But they're also capable of being the most wonderful, sweet pets in the world, depending on how you raise them. That's all our children.
~ Andrew Vachss
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
~ Andrew Vachss
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
~ Andrew Vachss
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
~ Andrew Vachss
How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.
~ Andrew White
Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You, the Elder Folk, like to say that hatred is alien to you, that it is a feeling known only to humans. But it is not true. You know what hatred is and are capable of hating, you merely evince it a little differently, more wisely and less savagely. But because of that it may be more cruel.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The game is called," said the witcher slowly, "don't do unto others what you would not have them do to you.' You don't have to
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
No, Chireadan,' he answered. 'I wouldn't disagree. Thank you for the warning. But this only concerns Dandilion. He suffered at my side, in my presence. I didn't manage to save him and I couldn't help him. I'd sit on a scorpion with my bare backside if I knew it would help him.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But bear in mind you are not alone. You have a gravely sick woman on your shoulders and this brat..." Ciri, who was trying to clean her dung-smeared boot on a ladder rung, raised her head.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Love,' Fringilla said slowly, 'is like renal colic. Until you have an attack, you can't even imagine what it's like. And when people tell you about it you don't believe them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Do you understand what this neutrality is, which stirs you so? To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself. Do you understand?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Love,' Fringilla said slowly, 'is like renal colic. Until you have an attack, you can't even imagine what it's like. And when people tell you about it you don't believe them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
And what kind of love would it be if the one who loves were not capable of a little sacrifice?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Quiet, quiet, children. They are not demons, not devils… Worse than that. They are people.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR. Just under that somebody had scribbled in much smaller letters AND TAKE A SHIT EVERY MORNING.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Ser neutral no significa ser indiferente e insensible. No hay que matar el sentimiento dentro de uno mismo. Basta con matar el odio dentro de uno mismo.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Então, o profeta Lebioda disse: ‹‹Pega nesse teu gato que faz ageneiras e te dá constantes prejuízos e entrega-o ao teu próximo. Terás satisfação a dobrar. Livras-te do gato e farás o teu próximo feliz. Pois na maioria dos casos, o próximo não quer o presente, quer, isso sim, ser presenteado.››
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
So long, Geralt. Look after yourself." The witcher's smile was surly. "I prefer to look after others. It turns out better in the long run." From
~ Andrzej Sapkowski