Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness. I swear, I would cry at a fly caught in a spider's web.' He grimaced at a brutal spasm through his leg as he turned for the door. 'Constant pain has cured me of that.

Never doubt another's choices, I say. You can't know his reasons.

What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!

You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.

Everyone should forgive themselves, Vick." He gave her wrist another squeeze then let her go, looking out towards the lake again. "After all… no one else will.

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.

Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

No mother should lose her child.

This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring them what they need. Keep them warm. Listen to them rant, and cry, and tell their story over and over.

Words of kindness had always been more difficult for me to handle than harsh reprimands. Ever since I had been quite young, I could resist those who went against me, had been able to deny their opinions. My inner strength came from an ability to handle, then separate myself from, adversity. Compassion, however, brought up more raw emotion than judgments could ever stir.

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. —Mother Jones

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business