Quotes about Compassion

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely.

Nobody's heart is perfect.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe