compassion

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears _ and it does nothing.

Give, but give until it hurts.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Perhaps,_ murmured his lordship, __ yielded to a compassionate impulse.___ what?_ gasped his best friend. __h, did you think I never did so?_ said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. __ou wrong me! I do, sometimes__ot frequently, of course, but every now and then!

On the one hand maybe I__e remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency to handle things as we see fit. But, in all things, regardless of whether we make the same choices or not, we are to treat each other with dignity and respect, both of which are evidences of charity in our hearts and lives.

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it. Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy - if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption. And, of course, never let him suspect that he has tones and looks which similarly annoy her. As he cannot see or hear himself, this easily managed.