Quotes About Compassion

Wish I knew. Meeting you taught me to forgive myself. I don't need to hate. Not anymore.

Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

The world is cruel. It does not have to be ugly.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she'd worn, the insecurity she'd felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice. And above all, love.

I no longer worried that she was a landlord's wife. She was my grandmother.

After thinking so much about that time, I wanted to do something for the little girl I had been, and for all the children who lost their childhoods as I did. This book is the result.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The lesson of the Funk Dog: "You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten—or just a low-grad funk—seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.

Lange, who had been stricken by polio at the age of seven and walked with a painful limp, had become famous for the achingly sympathetic photographs she'd taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. "Cripples know about each other," she said of her ability to capture suffering on film.

How do people reconcile themselves to war's worst cruelties?

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

I am writing this because they cannot.