Quotes about Compassion
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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing. I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.
— Barbara Kingsolver
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
— Stephen Covey
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
— Stephen Covey