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Quotes About Compassion

You" is emphatic. When the eye keeps steadfastly fastened on God's judgments upon a guilty world and upon His assured Promise of personal Salvation, then the heart is delivered from Earthly expectations and is, at the same time, prepared to suffer calamities in sympathy with national distress.)
~ Jimmy Swaggart
Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.
~ Jimmy Wales
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.—Mark Twain
~ Jinx Schwartz
Love is being happy making the loved ones smile.
~ Jitu Das
Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.
~ Jo Ann Beard
To all the fallen: may they be young forever in heaven. To all the wounded: may they have strength and heal. To all the bereaved: may they feel joy again. And please God," he added quietly, "may there one day be an end to war.
~ Jo Beverley
We only hate what we don't understand.
~ Jo Knowles
Maybe that's what being real friends are all about - putting up with the hard lessons - both taught and learned together.
~ Jo Knowles
She's the kind of person who looks at you when you're talking and asks you questions as if she really cares.
~ Jo Knowles
I try to remind myself of all the mean things she's done to me, but in the end it doesn't matter. With Leah, it never did. Even from the very beginning. No matter how much she hurt me, I always came back. All she had to do was reach for my hand and pull.
~ Jo Knowles
It makes me want to cry. Sometimes, when someone is nice to you for no reason but when you need it most, that happens.
~ Jo Knowles
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
~ Jo Walton
You feel what you feel, and I feel what I feel, but that doesn't mean you have to fit us into a story and wreck both our lives.
~ Jo Walton
One thing I have learned about grief," I said to her, "is that nothing anyone says to you is useful, but it can still be comforting sometimes to know you're not alone
~ Jo Walton
But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.
~ Jo Walton
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
~ Jo Walton
Eu não podia tão depressa fechar meu coração a ele. Sabia disso. Senti.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Solo è possibile vivere vicino a un altro, e conoscere un'altra persona, senza pericolo di odio, se si ha amore. Qualsiasi amore già è un poco salute, un riposo nella pazzia.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Eu sei: nojo é invenção, do Que-Não-Há, para estorvar que se tenha dó.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
E, dico a vossignoria come è che io volevo bene a Diadorim: ed è che, in nessun momento, nessuna volta, mai io ebbi voglia di ridermi di lui.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
O senhor é bondoso de me ouvir. Tem horas antigas que ficaram muito mais perto da gente do que outras, de recente data. O senhor mesmo sabe.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
~ Joan Baez
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
~ Joan Baez