Quotes About Compassion

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good

when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

So much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" —GEORGE ELIOT

I wouldn't have done that to you"—Edward looks at his uncle and then over at Shay; this applies to her too—"because I know what it's like to be left behind.

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

It feels unkind that they are shoving their emotions at him when his own sadness and fear are so vast that he has to hide from them.

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

Make sure you live a meaningful life.

I want to know what to do," he hears himself say, and, like the decision to write to the co-pilot's wife, the statement is a relief. He wants to know what to do. She taps the center of his hand. "That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

Why is it," an old news anchor growls, "that out of all the terrible news in this terrible world, we care so much about this one downed plane and this one little boy?

I'm not saying you have to be vegan," Jordan says, perhaps picking up on his father's melancholy. "If you want to continue to make animals suffer unnecessarily, be my guest.

he's telling the kids to help others when they need help, and to accept help when they need it themselves.

We thought the boy might want this.

wouldn't have done that to you"—Edward looks at his uncle and then over at Shay; this applies to her too—"because I know what it's like to be left behind.

that person is wonderful, he or she is still somewhat ready, and so are the people who loved them.

You gotta get outside and exercise, you gotta take your pills, and you gotta take care of other people." No bullshit and no secrets

I'm not going to waste their kindness.

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you." ? Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

She could feel her friends' love pushing past her skin, into her body, and she cried too.

sweep her sister's husband into her own heart.