Quotes about Compassion

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is almost so simple I can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.

Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.

Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.

They wanted payback. I thought about what Rose said, wanting to see the rest of us hurt, because she was hurting. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire.