Quotes About Compassion

He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings—feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous—to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.

How many more burdens was he supposed to bear? Had he not paid enough, given enough, sacrificed enough—loved enough?

No stranger to trouble myself, I am learning to care for the unhappy. Virgil, Aeneid,

The argument had been in full swing when Matthew's father telephoned with the news that a funny turn Matthew's mother had suffered the previous week had been diagnosed as a mini-stroke. After this, she and Matthew felt that squabbling about Strike was in bad taste, so they went to bed in an unsatisfactory state of theoretical reconciliation, both, Robin knew, still seething. It was

there's one thing I 'ate, it's treating people diff'rent because of where they were born.

but each of those negative images represented a human whose heart had once beaten, whose ambitions and opinions, triumphs and disappointments had been as real Margot Bamborough's...

how happy I should feel if I could succeed in bringing a little light into all this murky ugliness. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

and in spite of everything he was going through, she too was tired, she too had personal worries, and would have appreciated just a little effort.

Social workers work Saturdays as well as detectives, I see." "People don't stop needing help at weekends," she said drily.

You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it

You could forgive Brenner a lot, once you saw what 'e'd witnessed, what 'e'd been through . . . but that's true of everyone really, innit? Once you know, ev'rything's explained. It's a shame you often don't know until it's too late . . .

I've only got one leg." "Don't be silly…" "I'm not being silly…it got blown off in Afghanistan." "Poor baby…" she whispered. "I'll rub it better." "Yeah—that's not my leg…It's helping, though…

D'you mind if we get going?' said Strike, checking his watch. 'I told Elin I'll be over tonight.' 'No problem,' said Robin. Yet for some reason—perhaps due to her headache, perhaps because of the lonely woman sitting in Summerfield among the memories of loved ones who had left her—Robin could easily have wept all over again.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

I learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared suffering.

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

Waktu untuk berbahagia itu sekarang, Tempat untuk berbahagia itu di sini, Cara untuk berbahagia ialah dengan membuat orang lain berbahagia.

We must recognize that if we feel helpless when facing the record of human depravity, there was always a point at which any particular scene of madness could have been stopped.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.